Nothing should be asserted that is not known. Nothing should be denied, the falsity of which has not been, or cannot be, demonstrated. Opinions are simply given for what they are worth. They are guesses, and one guesser should give to another guesser all the right of guessing that he claims for himself. Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.
Nothing is harder to bear than the egotism of ignorance and the arrogance of superstition.
The man who has some knowledge of the difficulties surrounding these subjects, who knows something of the limitations of the human mind, must, of necessity, be mentally modest. And this condition of mental modesty is the only one consistent with individual progress. Above all, and over all, a Liberal paper should teach the absolute freedom of the mind, the utter independence of the individual, the perfect liberty of speech. The Bank Of Wisdom is run by Emmet Fields out of his home in Kentucky. He painstakingly scanned in these works and put them on disks for others to have available.