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The Exigency of Truth. 3
the usurper and regicide. It can scarcely be
said at this day that the party we are describing
did wrong. The bloodless revolution which
restored the monarchy was, as we know, the
result. Thus it cannot surely be contended
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that the exigency of political truth required on
the part of each individual who embraced it
immediate individual action in the way which
extreme moralists would insist.
But political is not moral truth, much less is
it
religious, says an objector. Still all truth of
what sort or kind soever it be is of GOD : and
that one fact alone is sufficient to show that
there is no radical distinction in the various
kinds of truth. We are not, as it will be
seen, speaking of truth in the abstract, but of
certain concrete truths, known and acknow
ledged to be such by any given individual.
What is he to do with them when he has got
them ? No one will contend that all truths are
equally important nor that equal necessity lies
upon a person to make known a law which he
has discovered in
physical science, and a vital
truth of the Gospel which has been borne in upon
his conviction with unusual force. Still all
truths must be acted on in their degree, and
we must regulate our conduct at all times in
reference to them at the risk of incurring the
them. What
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penalties affixed to disregarding
we contend is that it by no means follows that
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