PREJUDICES.
Prejudices or pre-judgment, has little powpr for harm when all the facts "thßt it is prejudicing are fully faced. "When people once lay aside their prejudices,' said some one recently', "they have little difficulty in getting together." True enough; but this remedy overlooks the fact that it is very difficult to git people, by sheer will power, to lay aside their prejudices. What we need rather to bear in mind is that when people get together that dispels the prejudice; for when people come close enough to look each other in the face and see each one as he is, not as he was unfairly prejudged to be. the bugbear of imaginative prejudice vanishes like all other ghosts. When we find ourselves feeling bitter or intolerant or contemptuous toward anyone, let us rememher that this is sure evidence, not that he deserves this feeling, but that we need to know him better. If we are so situated that we cannot know him better, then the least that we can do is to acknowledge the onesidedness of our view, and drop it for a faher one.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 646, 25 February 1914, Page 7
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186PREJUDICES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 646, 25 February 1914, Page 7
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