OCR Text |
Show I IIDEAS IDEAS CHANGE CHANGEIt CHANGEI I It is chaiactenstic chalacterIstic characteristic of most persons who have decidedopinions decided decidedopinions I ) Iopmions opmions opinions on any subject that they endeavor to bring brmg everyone else elseI elseto else'to elseto I ' to their way of thinking th1nking . . In eases cases where the issue is a clear-cut clear cut - - one , involving right rightand I ) Iand j jand I and wrong , it may be that an uncompromising attitude is Justi- Justi justiw - \ + . w - . .fled fled . justi-ified justi ified Justi.fled justifled . But , who . , "ho ho " shall say just dust what is right and what is wrong wrong"Ideas wrongIdeas ? j i ) j'Ideas 'Ideas Ideas ' " " concerning concernmg right and wrong ' change with the times . I I INot Not so many decades ago some of the most cultured and en- en enlightened en enlightened - enIlIghtened lightened people of ithis rthIS this ; country believed that human slavery was waslegItImate waslegitimate waslegitimate en-I en I legItImate and proper . George ' Washington 'Vashmgton Vashmgton ' was 'as as ' as one of them ; ; at atleast atleast atleast least he was a large slave-owner slave owner - as long as he lived . We think it itwrong itwrong I 'wrong wrong ' today . I The Puritans thought it wrong for a man to kiss his wife on ' Sunda Sunday onSunday > ' , and they passed a law prohibiting prohibItJ.pg prohibItJpg prohibrtipg . him from doing so . . We WeI Wenow Wenow I ' now laugh at the idea of such a law . , ' If everyone had agreed with such old Ide ideas s and no one had hadever hadever hadever ever mustered up the courage to combat them , we should have havemade havemade havemade made little progress . " We Wb would still be hanging hangmg witches . "What What " is , neede in the world is not that we shouldall should all think thinkahke thinkalike thinkalike ahke alike , but that we should have a greater feeling of tolerance and andrespect andrespect andrespect respect matterhow for the opinions of others , when honestly held , no matter how much they may differ from our own . truthbut The average normal person is really realIy seeking for the truth- truth truth - but the truth is often elusive , and , d each must find it in his ownway ownway own Iway way . ' 1 _ |