Unhappily The Habit Of Being Offensive 'without

Power Of Generalizing Gives Men So Much The Superiority In Mistake Over The Dumb Animals.

Scepticismcan Never Be Thoroughly Applied, Else Life Would Come To A Standstill.

It Always Remains True That If We Had Been Greater, Circumstance Would Have Been Less Strong Against Us.

Minds Fettered By This Doctrine No Longer Inquire Concerning A Proposition Whether It Is Attested By Sufficient Evidence, But Whether It Accords With Scripture; They Do Not Search For Facts As Such, But For Facts That Will Bear Out Their Doctrine. It Is Easy To See That This Mental Habit Blunts Not Only The Perception Of Truth, But The Sense Of Truthfulness, And That The Man Whose Faith Drives Him Into Fallacies Treads Close Upon The Precipice Of Falsehood.

Only Those Who Know The Supremacy Of The Intellectual Life──the Life Which Has A Seed Of Ennobling Thought And Purpose Within──can Understand The Grief Of One Who Falls From That Serene Activity Into The Absorbing Soul-wasting Struggle With Worldly Annoyances.