This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...it to receive any countenance. A University would indeed be wallowing in the mire when it taught or sanctioned the teaching that truth was not to be pursued anywhere, almost anyhow, and at any risk. But I do not think that it is a fair account of the matter. We might better state it thus;--A man may ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...it to receive any countenance. A University would indeed be wallowing in the mire when it taught or sanctioned the teaching that truth was not to be pursued anywhere, almost anyhow, and at any risk. But I do not think that it is a fair account of the matter. We might better state it thus;--A man may feel convinced that the whole complexion of the life he leads tends to give prominence to one set of facts, and to suppress or impair the influence of another set. This being the case, it is perfectly fair on his part for him to throw some weight into the scale which he knows is being depressed. I think that such precautions would not be disallowed by v. L. G any prudent man, in the instance of lesser matters, say political or social. If you were going into the midst of a society amongst which you well knew that some large class of considerations was neglected or disparaged, and if moreover you felt sure that this was not a mere equipoise to the comparative estimate entertained elsewhere, but that they were unduly neglected; might not any one fairly take measures to guard against the consequent influence? If he thought this needless, it would probably be either because he confided in the perfect security of his acquired convictions, or else because he felt sure that what he was now about to experience would be likely by sheer reaction to evoke a sufficient strength of opposing sentiment. But if he were forced to send his children into a society in which he knew that these partial influences would present themselves armed with the seductive force of sympathy, would he regard such precautions as being wrong or altogether needless? The words of our Saviour which I have taken for my text to-day contain, I think, an application of this truth, "How...
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