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Show TOLERANCE Though not a known fact it is believed that Voltaire said, "The best weapon with which to combat intolerance is toleration." Assuredly many people have looked to tolerance toler-ance as the solution of national difficulties. But regardless of the origin of the saying, its practical application to present-day questions of national importance is clearly defined. Tolerance makes for peace and an amicable adjustment of a controversy. Intolerance of any type can do nothing but incite trouble and prevent the type of thought thai is essential es-sential to the proper tre atment of any matter. Mankind, from the self satisfied Egyptian and Roman, has ever been inclined to subdue any thought contrary to his own and if not able to do so, then entirely ignored it as being fathered by ignorance. To ignore is ignorance. Spain's Armada and the French court of Louis XIV looked down upon the rest of what they considered a drab world, with great condescension. The Quaker's particular philosophy which fits many was "All the world is queer but thee and me, wife and thee is a little queer." Thus down through the ages to the present day has man been inconsiderate of his fellowman's right to an honest opinion and thus has he continued to fight intolerance with intolerance. Today, we live in an era where man's individual thought has gone farther towards proper recognition than ever before. It is believed that the presidential election will show just how1 tolerant man has become in his willingness willing-ness to admit the rights of others. The French sounded the key-note when they summed a great philosophy in a dozen words: "The rights of one citizen end where the rights of another begin." |