Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-06-12

Each individual is link In an I'M
broken chain of life extending back to
the beginning, and he enjoys life today
only by virtue of the fact that each
ancestor in the long line possessed
the will to live and the intelligence
and courage to grasp and to use such
means as were then available to COM
hat untoward conditions, thereby be-
ing enabled to reproduce strong Off
spring Continuation Of the line of
life places the same obligation on the
present generation.
That there is definite government
of this universe is generally admitted.
Matter is not scattered at random, but
in accordance with orderly and fixed
laws, and it Is in accordance with all
that we know of the rest of the world
that there should be agreement be-
tween one portion of sensitive crea-
ton and another portion, in all mat
tiers and at all points. This explains
those close and remarkable analogies
so frequently noted by independent in
Ill SNSly dSpdi llnCul, anu
makes clear how we may measure the
unknown by the known, the whole by
the part.
The Greeks loved hypothesis and
disdained facts, and we in this age are
not in any great degree, if at all, SUI
perior to them in this respect. APP
parently, the thing we most strenu-
ously endeavor not to see is "the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth"
Mark Twain in his quaint and
humorous but very sound and whole
some style sums up the situation in
the following words: 1--WE are always
hearing of people who are around seek
ing after truth. | have never seen
permanent specimen. | think he has
never lived. But | have seen several
entirely sincere people who thought
they were permanent seekers after
truth. They sought diligently, per-
sistently, carefully, cautiously, pro-
foundly, with perfect honesty and nice
ly adjusted judgment-until they be-
lieved that without doubt or question
they had found the truth. That was
the end of the search. The man spent
the rest Of his life hunting up shin
giles wherewith to protect his truth
from the weather. II he were seeking
after political truth he found it in one
or the other Of the political gospels
which govern men on the earth; If he
were seeking the only true religion he
found it in one or the other of the
5000 that are on the market. In any
case when he found the truth he
sought no further, but from that day
forth, with, his soldering iron in one
hand and his bludgeon in the other, he
tinkered Its leaks and reasoned with
DIRECTORS"
That Is fair statement of the
mental attitude of most of us. Our
minds are not self-propelling and I'M
less we are careful to remember that
even the north star is not fixed. but is
in constant motion, inertia grips us
and makes it difficult for us to ad-
vance from truth to truth with the
same freedom and enjoyment we ex-
perience in recognizing and appreci-
ating the changing landscape at each
turn III road we may be travelling
OF course our brand of truth is THE
TRUTH, measured by the facts as
seen from our particular point of view
But like the old Scotchman who frank
ly admitted he was very reasonable
and easy to convince but would like
to meet the man who could convince
him, we are prone to refuse to see
and easily become constitutional