WE OWE TO SOCIETY IX 11 toleration some people there aro are so confident of their tair own infallibility that no one dare disagree with them under pain of condemnation or of crushing scorn diversity af of opinion is the mighty lover lever that moves the thought of the world it in id constant friction with opposing ideas that draws out all the latent possibilities of the human mind evea tho the most humble donot do not like to bo be outdone in a discussion and this incentive makes us think end and study therefore lot let us treat those who disagree with us with kind forebear I 1 ance lot let us endeavor so teach not dictate learn leam not stop our ears earn the greatest thinkers are the boat best listeners they watch for tle grains of wheat among tho chaff ridicule is a species of into lorence lorenco which should bo be used only to protect us from what is ia wicked and pernicious reason beason is the cho greatest gift of man ho he that hath brains lot him th think ink many of us imagine that tho whole structure of truth is reared on our shoulders as tho the ancients supposed the cho world to rost rest on tho the shoulders dors of atlas and that wo must uphold it or it will fall and grout groat bo be tho the fall thereof but truth is ia eternal immutable its ita own advocate and dof defence its shining pinnacles tower over the hulks of unnumbered errors it took men to abolish human slavery elavery but it was truth that steeled their blades and won the triumph be it purging fire or a flickering omber ember it is immortal and will never dio die L DOUGLAS