APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
Platonic philosophy is probably the grandest example of the unscientific use of imagination extant; and it wood be bard to estimate the amount of detriment to clear thinking effected, directly and indirectly, by the theory of ideas, on the one hand ,and by the unfortunate doctrine of the baseness of matter, on the ojLer. *** . * The development of exact natural knowledge in ail its vast range, from physics to history and criticism, is the consequence of the working out, in this province of the resolution to ‘‘take nothing for truth without clear knowledge that it is such” ; to consider all beliefs open to criticism; to regard the value of authority as neither greater nor less than as much as it can prove' itself to be worth. The modern spirit is not the spirit “which always denies,” delighting only in dessructiou; still less is it that which builds castles in the air rather than not construct; it is that spirit which works and will work “without haste and without rest,” gathering harvest after harvest of truth into its hams and devouring errors with unquenchable fire.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1931, Page 1
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186APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1931, Page 1
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