thinking
about, philanthropy, glass-blowing, locomotives,
highway robbery, ship biscuit, life insurance,
or fish bait. The Spirit of truth will
lead you into more Truth; and finding
Truth is fun--the only fun there is; and
it is the highroad to anything else you
want, if you want anything else.
Do you think this is a simple treatment of a tremendous theme--simple to the verge of rashness? Precisely so. Truth is a simple thing for simple minds. The skeptical world, at every fresh presentation of Truth, itself always puts its sneering slur in just those words, thereby proving exactly the main contention herein offered. Finding Truth by thinking is the natural, instinctive amusement of truly simple minds. Simplicity is the essence of the only terms on which Truth will be had. "Know what you mean, and you'll be great," Barrie says. And the simple mind, seeing the simple Truth and simply expressing it, thereby becomes great. And the whole of this or any other statement is only true for you or me in so far as it measures up to our standard. It is not what authority says is true, but Truth that is the only authority! "I would rather be right than be President!" Why? It is more fun; and incidentally, the road to the presidency of--anything!
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