Show each individual Is a link in an unbroken chain of life extending back to the beginning and he enjoys life today only by virtue of the facts fact thai each ancestor in the long line possessed tle the will to live and the intelligence and courage to grasp and to use such subh means as were then available to combat untoward conditions thereby being enabled to reproduce strong offspring continuation of the line of lite life places the same came obligation on the present generation a that there is a definite government of this universe is generally admitted matter Is not scattered at random put but in accordance with orderly and fixed laws and itis it as in accordance with all that we know of the rest of no hafl world that there should be agreement between one 0 ofa sensitive creation and another portion in all matters and at all points this explains those close and remarkable analogies so BO frequently noted by independent investigators vesti gators in every department a and nd makes clear how we may measure the unknown by the known the whole by the part the greeks loved hypothesis andl and disdained disdain ed facts and we in this age tire are not in any great degree it if at all superior to them in this respect apparently parent ly the thing we roost most strenuously endeavor not to see is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth mark alark twain in his bis quaint and humorous but very sound and wholesome style sums up the situation in the following words we are always hearing of people who are around seeking after truth I 1 have never seen a permanent erma neni specimen I 1 think he has never lived but I 1 have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were permanent seekers s after truth they sought diligently P persistently er carefully cautiously profoundly fo with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment until they believed that without doubt or quest question ton they had found the truth that was the end of the search the man spent nt the rest of his life hunting up shingles where wherewith with to protect his truth from the w weather eather if ho were seeking after political poli truth lie he found it in c one e or the he other of the political gospels which govern men on the earth it if he were seeking the only true rell religion gion he t found it in one or the other of the that are on the market in any case cage when ho he found the truth he sought no further but from that day orth forth with his soldering iron in one and and his bludgeon in the other he ha tinkered its leaks and reasoned with objectors that bhatla is fair stat statement ement 6 f the mental attitude of most of us our winds are not self propelling and unless we are careful ta remember t tb list at even the north star Is not fixed but I 1 is 11 in constant motion inertia grips u us and d makes it difficult for us to advance from truth to truth with the acae game freedom and enjoyment we ex orience Per lenca in recognizing and altig biting the changing landscape at each turn rn lu a road we may be traveling ot of course our brand of truth Is THE TRUTH measured by tile the facts as feea t tm M our particular point of view but ut like the old scotchman who frank IY y admitted li wai was very reasonable d easy to convince iut would like to 0 o meet the man who could convince him we are prone to refuse to see an ind easily become constitutional and rather inclined to be proud ot of our intellectual blindness |