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another form of the solidarity of mankind. St. Paul puts 

 what seems to me the principle succinctly, when he says, 

 ' Putting away lying, speak every man truth with his 

 neighbour, for we are members one of another.' On the 

 whole the race has an instinct for, as well as an interest in, 

 truth which we can trust not credulously or irrationally, 

 but reasonably and carefully. We shall be deceived from 

 time to time, and make mistakes ; but we must make pur 

 venture, for without it we must be content with the very 

 limited knowledge of the world that directly reaches our 

 own eyes and ears. 



