APPILY the iimes display an 

 increasing Catholicity of feel- 

 ings which we shall do well in 

 carrying as far as our natures 

 permit. In proportion as we 

 love truth more and victory less, we shall 

 become anxious to know what it is which 

 leads our opponents to think as they do. 

 We shall begin to suspect that the perti- 

 nacity of belief exhibited by them must 

 result from a perception of something we 

 have not perceived, and we shall aim to 

 supplement the portion of truth we have 

 found by the portion found by them, mak- 

 ing a more rational estimate of human 

 authority, we shall avoid alike the ex- 

 tremes of undue submission and undue 

 rebellion; shall not regard some men's 

 judgment as wholly good and others as 

 wholly bad; but shall rather lean to the 

 more defensible position that none are 

 completely right and none are complete- 

 ly wrong. 

 HERBERT SPENCER 



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