CHAPTER II 

 TRUTH AND TESTIMONY 



The first and last thing that is demanded of genius is love 

 of truth. Goethe. 



There is no lie in Nature ; no discords in the revelations 

 of science, in the laws of the Universe. C. Kingsley. 



Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, 

 whatever their powers, in whom the Divine afflatus of 

 the truth-seeker was wanting. Huxley. 



The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in 

 this world is to discover new truths ; and the next is 

 to shake off old prejudices. Frederick the Great. 



New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient 

 good uncouth ; 



They must upward still and onward who would keep 

 abreast of truth. J. R. Lowell. 



We cannot command veracity at will ; the power of seeing 

 and reporting truly is a form of health that has to be 

 delicately guarded. The penalty of untruth is untruth. 

 George Eliot. 



// God held enclosed in His right hand all truth, and in 

 His left simply the ever-moving impulse towards 

 truth, although with the condition that I should eternally 

 err, and said to me, " Choose ! " / should humbly bow 

 before His left hand, and say, " Father, give \ Pure 

 truth is for Thee alone." G. E. Lessing. 



DURING the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the 

 Royal Society in 1912, a commemorative service was 

 held in the ancient Abbey of Westminster, and the Right 

 Rev. the Dean of Westminster, Dr. H. E. Ryle, delivered 



