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Show Matter of Accuracy of Greatest Import I do not know that there is anything, any-thing, except it be humility, which is so valuable as an incident of educa lion as accuracy. And accuracy can be taught Direct lies told to the world are as dust in the balance when weighed against the falfehoods of In accuracy. These are the fatal things And they are all-pervading. I scarce Iy care what is taught to the young if it will but Implant in them the habit of accuracy. Now. look at the matter In this light Take tne speech of any man for any given day. For once that he wilfully gives a wrong color (with an eye to his own Interests) to anything which he states or narrates, he mistakes mis-takes or misdesenbes 20 times, ou ac count of his inability to tell anything accurately. Besides, there is this Important result re-sult from a habit of accuracy, that It produces truthfulness even on those occasions ' where a man would be tempted to be . untruthful. He gradually grad-ually gets to love accuracy more eveu than his own interests; at last lie has a passion for accuracy. Arthur Helps. |