" A GREAT lawyer, statesman, and philosopher of a 

 former age I mean Francis Bacon said that truth 

 came out of error much more rapidly than it came out of 

 confusion. There is a wonderful truth in that saying. 

 Next to being right in the world, the best of all things is 

 to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come 

 out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right 

 and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out no- 

 where ; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and 

 persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the 

 extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a 

 fact, and that sets you straight again." HUXLEY. 



