The Prophet And The Martyr Do Not

What Has Once Been Settled By A Precedent Will Not Be Unsettled Overnight, For Certainty And Uniformity Are Gains Not Lightly Sacrificed. Above All Is This True When Honest Men Have Shaped Their Conduct On The Faith Of The Pronouncement.

Expediency May Tip The Scales When Arguments Are Nicely Balanced.

In Our Worship Of Certainty We Must Distinguish Between The Sound Certainty And The Sham, Between What Is Gold And What Is Tinsel; And Then, When Certainty Is Attained, We Must Remember That It Is Not The Only Good; That We Can Buy It At Too High A Price; That There Is Danger In Perpetual Quiescence As Well As In Perpetual Motion; And That A Compromise Must Be Found In A Principle Of Growth.

The Heroic Hours Of Life Do Not Announce Their Presence By Drum And Trumpet, Challenging Us To Be True To Ourselves By Appeals To The Martial Spirit That Keeps The Blood At Heat. Some Little, Unassuming, Unobtrusive Choice Presents Itself Before Us Slyly And Craftily, Glib And Insinuating, In The Modest Garb Of Innocence. . . . Then It Is That You Will Be Summoned To Show The Courage Of Adventurous Youth.

Not Honesty Alone, But The Punctilio Of An Honor The Most Sensitive, Is Then The Standard Of Behavior.