The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-14
YESTERDAY
TODAY
AND
TOMORROW
Youth and Truth
sy W.o'

Youth ahu
n,, clarity a statement which
lf' Nv !, . talk 10 the Freshmen
nauo u"onomoreS m of the University MC,
p xS,.h SyI.V carolina at Chapel olnn mi,.
w. w. dav. | told those young
ot1sI ,Nst in more than three thou
e's US" ~ the recorded history
. I'D WOO n".hins had been settled yet
y man ,Ssp I told those Youngsters s
- lam everything they eonia anu
.r.'n ~. no,nius as true except those
"p' Nv" .nrs,l 10 h true by their
nSs s,psriencc and observation.
1n tAr ,n.r is an entirely different
~ n"N s-nm saying that they should "a
a,I a, ''C everything as false until until
a.. ~. heen able 10 demonstrate
y! ,,b un hy their own experience or
h "" VIZ do not know that the
,o,ian theory Of sraviration Is
'as; pu, for good many g1 years ,savS, We
w. ned i, as Il pretty good work
|: hypothesis for want Oi a'''ni'S
eitcr. =, -, .,,.s,rv Of
i,O,,nn. ~, the truth or falsity OF
!. ,'I ,sSorr is not yet dcmonStraO'e +;
= is I good theory to work
:, and has Smoothed the pathway
IN much scientific progress. .,,,...
p 4 no, possible for Sctnctis'S
h philosophers even TO prove the
S,,In,a ruth or falSity OF many
kI,S. and certainly no mere col
= youth clad in bell bottom trouS-
: and going hatlc>S to and from
,sos should ~ expected to diS-
3, GREATER wisdom 'ha" phil,
gphers and scientists
Tns idea that waS trying to coli
,aS simply this: That nothing
.h,,h,elr true because the ma
.i,r or any considerable number
pople say it is true. The honest
lrlsnt sud seeker after truth
amid onr<tion everything under
!, SIN and accept no dictum aS
"a, Thp infallible book has not
!. been written.
This earth on which We live Is
liIIions ii years old: man himself
tens Of thousands ot years old;
The human reason is not 81 very
\. humanity has only begun 10 Use
pa>On.
solomon was perhaps the wiseSt
an Of his place aud time. But
|i>ar m.n than Solomon have come
hi cone-Ari>totlr, Francis Bacon.
in,sirr Thomas Jefferson. Ralph
FaldO Emerson. All these have
tnc and gone since the nagnifi-
ta, Solomon Strutterl his puny stun
r,Ss this mundane stage and died
rhrins that all is vanity and
rIatiou Of spirit after havin. fail
] 10 satisfy the luSty passions and
slT iealVu>ir> ut seven hundred
fires.
The rae" will produce Yet wiser
ben than any that have gone be-
rr. II will fail 10 produce wiser
fen oair if i=ndrant and rOgliSh
|rieStS, anl politicians and their
|i-hly emotional and mreaSOnins
Mowers Succ~I in their selfish
|nd tanatiai determination TO pro-
|hit the teachings of anything in
fnflict with their own ancient
feeiS aud dosma>.
Iae destiny Of man i in the hands
rs youth. They may by forced
omission IN ecclesiastical author
drift back into the lethargic.
ai hopeless >rmi-barbariSm of the
sri Ages from which We So re-
fnuy emerged, or by DARN. to
|uot AMI thinking for themselves
may move onward and upward
p The licht Of Il better day and
10 Il radiation ot that more
Ohdant lii" which jesus haziIr
|nprehcudcd.
,ue 'art that boy goes thru
pug" does nor imply that he is
''eai,er capable ot thinking for
aSHit. on" of tn" most DESPAIR
'avtS in education is the fact .
We nave t" spend such an
"''u> amount Of money 10 pour
1u enormous amount Of infor-
''"n into such an enormous num-
Of heads in order to get 4 little
o'Slns knowledge into Il very few
[aaS that are capable Of making
r us, of il.
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