"THE TRUE AND THE GOOD."

Press, Volume L, Issue 14970, 18 May 1914, Page 4

"THE TRUE AND THE GOOD."

LECTURE BY PROFESSOR

SALMOND

On Saturday evening Professor Salmond delivered a lecture on "Ths True and the Good" to a fair Attendance of the V.M.C.A. Literary and ' Debating Society. The Professor explained the depend- l - ence of ethical and i__tell6c-__l natures upon one another, and that moral iervour was no excuse ior ignorance and stupidity. The divorce oi the inteLieotual from the moral had been a devastating force in the world, but so had sentimentality and narrowness. Christianity, as a religion, explained rightly that most of the moral evil )&y not in ignorance, but in tho will. -Nevertheless, it was in tho form and dogma of the Church that they found the most bitter estrangement between moral fervour and the search for truth. Form and dogma in religion, as in all thin©*, wero purely histor-cal- and a man in the Church who was not progressive was always on the losing side. An opei> eyed research for tru>_h was a Christian virtue, and the fearless modern religious irian had this characteristic highly developed. Tho Professor said that character was the chief good of life. Without truth and intellect thero was no character; at least, none that could bo relied upon.

A number of questions were asked during the lecturo, and kt the conclusion a vote of thanks was accorded the speaker.