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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 forThe 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 
