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research is the effort to reach a new point of view. The in- 

 vestigator requires a preliminary training of the senses, and 

 he needs an endowment of well-developed mental qualities, 

 especially judgment. 



Above all the worker must give his allegiance to Truth. 

 He works to find the absolute Truth. Many times failure 

 rewards his pains, even the slightest grasp at Truth eludes 

 him, and the reality is never reached. But the scientist in 

 dedicating his life to the search for the Truth stands in the 

 relation of one who would bring his world of relativities into 

 touch with the world of the ideal, into the actual world of 

 living Truth. Thus he unifies his outer and inner life. He 

 becomes not only one who says, "I still must hoard and heap 

 and class all truths with one ulterior purpose; I must know!" 

 but also his truth teaches him to know that Truth, God, and 

 Love are one. 



That one whose brow the kiss of the higher imagination and 

 intuition has sealed its own, be he poet, scientist, or artist, 

 is one with a, noble race of bards. 



Truth pertaining to phenomena must be in a measure 

 relative. The relativity of Truth is ever shifting its angle of 

 refraction as the number of its facets increases through ex- 

 perience. In personal experience what may seem' Truth in 

 early years may not remain wholly Truth in later years. All 

 grades of knowledge from a fixed point of view may be Truth 

 in their relation to other objects on the same level. But in 

 the advancing process the point of view will not be the same 

 for those who have watched the Truth's unfolding. Other 

 scenes rise in the vista, truths for the nonce, but the old truths 

 remain on their levels just as much Truth as before. 



They are the foothills on which we once stood and from 

 which we have climbed to the higher lands. Our horizon 

 widens. Our vision embraces the plains as well as the tower- 

 ing peaks ahead with their bold traceries screening the farthest 

 distance. Looking onward from the halfway heights of Truth 

 across the mountain ranges, rising one higher than the other, 

 until the most distant, and last to be traversed, the impen- 

 etrable great Himalayan snow fortresses, loom against the 



