Show with the high school classics dy by MARGARET BOYD 1 by Mars margaret caret lloy lloyd cl the cemino seeming truth which cunn cunning ing times put on to entrap the wisest 11 the T merchant of venice little evil Is done in uio the world by obvious untruth the danger la Is from untruth that for truth people do not willingly belle bellevo 0 a llo early in life children ask of tales told them Is in it true they continue to nek ask tho the same thine thing all their lives it Is not hoc however ver always eney easy to learn what ie in true some of tho the ancient said raid truth lived at tho the top of a very steep mountain others said she the 1 lived I ed at tho the bottom of a well uell no matter which dwelling pinco aa was ascribed to her all acknowledge dge that it was difficult to cutch a glimpse of her whether wo ue climb to truth by hard mental labor or dig for truth among the thoughts of other men inen truth will III never bo be found without work and en lence emerson Era ereon said gad offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose tako take which aou ou please you can never neer havo hae both Il etem these as n pendulum man oscillates ever eer ue 0 lo 10 a whom the lovo love of m repose pose predominates will accept the first creed vreed the first philosophy the first political party he meets most likely his fathers ho ne gets rest commodity and reputation but ho he shuts the door of truth he ile in whom the love loe of truth predominates sub mils mits to the incorv of and imperfect opinions when we look about us the earth seems lot flat hills and mountains seem to rest upon it ns as objects on a table for centuries the wisest idest men believed the earth was flat and so taught pupils the seeming truth of the worlds shape was disproved less than five centuries ago when the truth ol 01 a simple physical fact such as the earths shape was do a hard to come at it Is small wonder onder that the truth of facts In involving human actions and the truth of ideas and opinions is so dif dlf to learn we are wont to look upon history aa as truth but carlle defined history ae as a distillation of rumor and na defined it as a fable agreed upon NI while lille voltaire writing upon one phase erf history pointed out so many hidden causes are associated at times with the apparent cause so many unknown springs may be at work worl in the persecution of a man that it ts Is impossible centuries afterward to discover the hidden source of the misfortune even een of distinguished men |