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ESSAYS ON RE-TTNION.
L THE EXIGENCY OF TRUTH.
BY THE EEV. HENRY HUMBLE, M.A.,
CANON OF ST. XINIAH S CATHEDRAL, PERTH.
NO one, I suppose, would question the
obligation that lies upon a man to act in
some way upon known truth the very instant
it becomes part of his consciousness ; and yet
there are persons who do so act, whom we are
far from esteeming either wise or morally right.
Whether the subject-matter be worldly policy,
morals, or religion, no man is emancipated from
the necessity of judging how he is to carry his
newly-acquired convictions into practice.
Let us first take a case of worldly policy, and
it shall be historical, as lifting it out of the
category of possibilities
into that of actual
experience. During the great Rebellion a very
considerable party who had opposed the exer
cise of the Royal prerogative as unconstitutional
and wrong, and had proved, therefore, the most