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striving to be truthful in life and thought, seekers after ever¬ 
growing truth and light, we shall become worthy of a wider 
philosophy and religion including all men and women in 
ties of loving and truthful sympathy. Truth will not lead us 
wrong, though for a moment we are plunged “into a dark 
tremendous sea of cloud. It is but for a time.” We shall 
arise. 
I, for one, do not fear the dangers that many claim will 
fall if the discrimination of good and evil be left to the indi¬ 
vidual. But these conditions contain an active, quickly mov¬ 
ing, truthful, progressive ethics. The man or woman sunk in 
lowest degradation, sin, or crime is the laggard, and when 
pathological conditions do not explain the status, then poverty, 
a deplorable social state, love of luxury, the delights from 
money possession do. Seekers of vice for its own sake and 
for its supposed gains are not those seeking Truth for Truth’s 
sake and God’s. 
The greatest necessity of life, far beyond any other sort 
of prosperity, a necessity of our soul and body, is the struggle 
for the Good, and by research it is our duty to find out what 
is evil. With the diversity of men’s and women’s minds, 
there will be a corresponding diversity of what is good and 
what is evil. Never mind, let us have all diversities; out of 
the confusion of many tongues we shall find the middle way 
paved with blocks of truth leading towards the ultimate good. 
Every working hour of our lives should be devoted to the 
pursuit of the Good. When the relative good found has 
passed over into evil, because we have gained in knowledge 
and know that what seemed good in ignorance is so no more, 
then must this former good be spurned as lesser good and 
the soul must aspire again to dig through error’s crust. At 
last the sparkling transparent stream is found, the soul drinks 
of the inspiring waters, and pauses never again to define and 
distinguish the good from the evil. 
It has occurred to some that there is no purer motive than 
the pursuit of the higher Truth, the ideal Truth; and to ex¬ 
press these quests in the thoughts and deeds of every-day life 
is not only a duty, but an inspiration. Call such motives a 
