Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens Should Strive for Truth...
...often thought that the best means of promoting the search for truth is to have men advocate divergent views as strongly as they can, with the ideas that from the discord truth will emerge. This has its merit in assuring that no grain of truth will remain obscure; and it is excellent when as in a court, there are judges and jurors entrusted with the duty of remaining impartial and forming a right judgment. But in his part in creating opinion a citizen is both advocate and judge. Not only does he present his views, but he contributes also...
There are times of stress when men must fight for the greater truth as they see it against another aspect of truth which in the insistent strife is less vital; times when duty demands not to ask the reason why, but to do and die! Then duty becomes heroic, but intellectually simply. In more tranquil periods the supreme duty is to think aright. It is then that opinions can, and should, be formed that will direct action when the stress comes. Let us not forget that in peace the conflicting opinions are formed that later produce wars; that in quiet...
...vision, and there fore failing to take into account a part of the factors in the problem. Such near-sightedness, or defective vision, is due partly to our ignorance in large part unavoidable because we know, and can know, only a small portion of the influite compass of eternal truth. If is partly due also to the narrowness of our sympathies' which prevents us from comprehending the sentiments and point of view of others, who are quite as sincere, intelligent and well informed as ourselves, perhaps familiar with aspects of the matter we know little about and gifted with...
...fact is that over all these sources of shortsightedness we have some control, over many of them very great control. We can lessen our ignorance by earnest search for truth. We can widen our sympathies, and reduce our prejudice by striving to do so, and that without letting our resolution be sicklied o'er by the pale cast of thought. We can control our passions by frankly acknowledging their existence to ourselves...