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side face, but in the full front; not merely to look at truth When found, but to seek it till found. There must be no tampering with conviction, no hedging, or mental prevarication, no making the wish father to the thought' no fearing to arrive at a particular result. To think honestly, then, is to think freely, freedom and honesty of thought are truly but interchangable terms. For how can he think honestly, who dreads his being landed in this or that conclusion ? Such a one has already predetermined in his heart how he shall think, and what he shall believe. Perfect truth, like perfect love, casteth out fear."
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Let the method of simply, inquiry the Zetetic Process be exclusively adopted- experiments tried and facts collected not such only as COrroborate an already existing state of mind, but of every kind from hearing on the subject before a conclusion is drawn, or a conviction affirmed "Nature speaks to us in a peculiar language; in the language of phenomena. She answers at all times the questions which are put to her; and such questions are experimented.
"Nature lies before us as a panorama, let us explore and find delight, she puts questions to us, and we may also question her, the answers may oft times be hard to spell
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but no dreaded Sphinx shall interfere when human wisdom falters."
We have an excellent example of a "Zetetic" process in arithmetical operation, more especially so in what is called the "Golden Rule", or the "Rule of three". If a hundred-weight of any article costs a given sum, what I will sum other weight, less or more, be worth? The separate figures may be considered as the elements or facts in the inquiry; the placing and working of them as the logical arrangement of the evidence and the quotient, or answer, as the fair and natural deduction, the unavoidable or necessitated verdict. Hence in every Arithmetical or 'Zetetic' process, the conclusion arrived at is essentially quotient; which if the details are Correctly worked must of necessity be true and beyond the reach or power of contradiction.
We have another example of the 'Zetetic process in our courts of Justice. A prisoner is placed at the bar, evidence for and against him as demanded; when advanced it is carefully arranged and patiently considered. It is then presented to the jury for solemn reconsideration and whatever verdict is given, it is advanced as the unavoidable conclusion necessitated by the whole of the evidence. In trials, for Justice, society would tolerate any other procedure
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