Word: wrongfully
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Your articles and the style of presentation are both excellent, I think, but I am wondering about the correctness of "Yangtszekiang River" several times used in TIME, June 22, Page 13, CHINA. Doesn't Kiang mean river? If not, the dictionaries seem to be wrong...
This does not mean that all true men should think alike. Men differ, must differ, and ought to differ; but that does not affect the momentous results of wrong opinions, or the imperative duty of thinking aright. Nor is it any excuse that other people think the same. It is quite as bad, and often worse, to think wrong with the majority as to be in the wrong alone. If truth were so easy to ascertain that all honest-minded people instinctively thought alike the duty to think aright would involve too little effort to need an exhortation. Life...
...matter more accurately, we must endeavor to ascertain how much of truth or error it contains; for from history we learn that the common mistake of men has been to assume that of two opposing views one is absolutely right and the other wholly wrong, when in fact each had a savor of truth confused by exaggeration and error. From this cause have flowed political and religious struggles, resulting indeed in progress, but progress less complete and less durable than might have come from earnest effort on both sides to seek for what was right in each. In such cases...
...Wrong opinions come mainly from lack of sight, from not seeing far enough, or widely enough, or from obstacles in the line of 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...
Usually quite unconsciously to ourselves, for prejudice's that is conscious, like a mist at the rising of the sun, is likely to be about to dissipate. And herein lies one of the great difficulties in thinking aright, that we do not know when we are wrong, or we should not be wrong. The man who knows the right trail does not miss it. We go wrong because the moon has smittea our minds with error...