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Show Who Vants The Truth? The search for truth is the greatest activity of Ihiuman beings be-ings but it is often shackled by the tendency of individuals to become wedded to convictions that become dearer than truth itself. Let us assume, for example, that some man in Mt. Pleasant maikes a great discovery, hitherto hither-to unknown to imam and women. It is epochal, we assume, and i!he thinker announces it to tihe world. One would expect human beings be-ings to receive the information-with information-with open minds, test it by logic and experience and then embrace em-brace it with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, Un-fortunately, that is not the way of the world. Here is what would likely happen: hap-pen: Some people would think that it might interfere with their business profits. They would denounce the discovery as a communist immediately. Others would see in the enunciated enun-ciated principle some 4 dhallemge to thir established positions in economics, sociology, religion, or other fields. They would1 pounce upon the thinker with all the glee of a dog chasing a rabbit. So the process would go for decades before the truth would find itself welcome cm the globe. Readers may tlhink tihis is farfetched. far-fetched. They should read what happened in earlier ages to the great men who attempted to lead the minds of main along new paths of truth, in the field of science or religion. They should remember that huroaini nature has not changed very much, in tine ages since man began to walk the earth. - Now, there is nothing to be gained by denouncing human beings for being fools. All that amy individual can do, for him-zeli him-zeli or herself, is to resolve to be open-minded to eagerly await the revelations that are yet to come and to stand ready, upon proper occasion, to discard the londledi half-truth for the truth that is eventually destined to make men free. |