"PARALLAX OF TRUTHS."

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1336, 1 November 1884, Page 4

" PARALLAX OF TRUTHS."

Oliver Wendall iTolmep, m the " Profes' •or," has a remari about' what he calls the *• parallax of trutffs." 1C If yon, wish to get ffcttf difettinee of > a- heavenly *6dy, -JrOu 1 knbw ftlrstt jftiia. most take two observations from rfttiote poinjts of the earth's orb^t—its.mid•ummer and midwinter, for instance, ftp m polititics and religion— we' got' tne " parallax of truth" by comparing observatipwi, made from' opposite point! ,ot view. Oil Hfcnif principle I quote an U 6stimate j of General Gordon, whim I find m the Pacific Conmt rcial Advertiser," a ' paper published m Honolulu : — "Chinese Gordon is a fiUibusler of tbe. first water, and if he meets a filibuster's fate we cannot see why aay fraction of ihc world should be sorry., Ha went amoi g a people to kick up a bobbery, totally unauthorised by the British Government, and if Mr Gordon is scragged it' will lie toothing more than the fate he has courted. ■ There ie a lot of mock fenth mentally about Gordon, piincipally from those who have made no study, of the situation.'' It is very sad to reflect that In our admiration of 'the cbivalrons heroism »f Gordon we may a 1 of us have been indulging m ' mock sentimentality,' and are <hus ■expofed to ) ebuke , from , j.be enlightened press of the Sandwich Islands. A rebukfrom suc)i a quarter is j a rebuke . indeed !