The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02

thy penalties. . Not May-game
is this mans life; but battle and a
march; a warfare with principalities
and powers. No idle promenade through
fragrant orange groves and green flow
cry spaces, waited on by the choral
MUSES. and the rosy Hours; 1t is the stern
pilgrimage through burning sandy soli-
tudes, through regions of ick-ribbed
ice. He walks among men, loves men
with inexpressible soft pity-as they
cannot love him; but his soul dwells in
solitude. in the uttermost parts of Crea-
ton"
To descend to a lower theme, we are
bound to admit. and we do so sorrow
fully, though hopefully, that women as
q whole are less veracious than men,
where great issues are at stake. They
have been so accustomed to an inferior
position that it would have been a mir
acle if they did not exhibit some of the
vices which are natural to the subju-
gated. They have been taught to obey.
but never to rule They have been
taught to take their ideas and opinions
at second hand; to borrow, but never
to find for themselves. Even in matters
of religion they must worship but not
investigate. They might praise their
masters, but not criticise them; might
ask questions but must be satisfied with
such replies as they could get. Quicker
witted and more subtle than men, it was
not possible under such circumstances
that veracity on matters of moment
should be one of their distinguishing
traits. They had to simulate an infer
iority which they could not feel to avoid
the terrible imputation of being strong
minded. Who but men would have inn
agined that strong mindedness could be
a reproach to any human being? Yet.
in minor matters their veracity is SUI
perior, because this, too. renders them
more esteemed by the other sex.
Wherever the world OVnr we
find mendacity is the armor of the weak
against the strong. Despotisms produce
1t by law as certain as gravitation.
Ignorance intrenches itself with false
hoods. Savages. easterns, and Afri
cans lie by instinct, lie when it would be
more advantageous to them to tell the
truth.
The ignorant and semi-savage among
us do the same. as do also the immoral
among their social superors. Vice and
ignorance are thus the natural enemies
of veracity, and the measure of both
may be gauged by the latter. 1t may
be fairly taken that the relative posi-
ton of a nation may be estimated by its
love or disregard of truth The love
of truth is the loftiest passion of which
free men are capable. We must not
expect it from slaves. Let those who
are free first help them to become free
also. 1.-The sincere alone can recognize
sincerity" The veracious only believe
III tne necessity ana goodness of VeraC-
ity The true in heart. and none else,
reverence truth. All besides are slaves.
They may sit on thrones. direct armies
and fleets and govern millions vet they
are slaves down to the soles of their
feet. How few there are at whose grave
it could be said: "He lies there who
never feared the face of man." because
so few are guided by a life of absolute
sincerity. Liberty rests not in laws,
nor slavery in chains True freedom
is of the mind, and IS enjoyed only by
him whom the truth makes free. "He
does not engrave truth on his watch
seal; no, but he stands by truth. speaks
by it, works and lives by it. The
man whom nature has appointed to do
great things is. first of all, furnished
with that openness to nature which rem
ders him incapable of being insincere!"
Veracity. therefore, is natures mark
of nobility, and should be cultivated
from earliest childhood to the grave as
the loyal bond which binds man to man
and all to God