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, hcclesiasLicism in science is only unlailhfulness to truth.
Il the blind acceptance of authority appears to him m its line colours, as mere private judgment in excelsis, and if he have the coinage to stand alone, nice to face with abyss of the eternal and unknowable, let him he content, mice for all, not only to renounce the good things promised by ‘lnfallibility’ but even to bear the bad tilings which it prophesies; content to follow reason and fact in singleness and honesty of purpose, wherever they may lead, in the sure faith that a hell of honest. men will, to him, fid more endurable titan a paradise full of angelic shams -x- -X- -X- * History warns us that it: is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end in superstitions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1931, Page 1
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138APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1931, Page 1
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