Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY A.
D. TRUSSELL
*,i,,i,,1,.g HERE are many people in the world who
if if know things. There are many more people
-If ll' who give mental assent to what those who
'B ii' know aiiirm to be true; this is a mere be-
¥J'*l*4l*5¥ lief; while others believe in some phases
of what the wise ones affirm and believe,
ever seeking
to know and to prove the processes given by the wise
ones to be true, and thru correct reasoning, they too
have knowledge. Without what we call a practical education,
the reading of the aiiirmations of any or all scientists
or artists does not make one a scientist or an
artist. Altho a theoretical education, or the experiences
of others, is a great help, yet there is nothing known in
any science, material, mental, or spiritual, but what some
man discovered it, and that without the help of his fellow
man.
For proof of this statement, Irefer to the wonderful
There is not
inventions of the last seventy-five years.
a material science known to man but what has become
known by virtue of the right use of his faculties with
which he was endowed by his Creator. If one simply
has a belief recieved from his fellow man that is not
true, and one repeats it, we have just as much evidence
from his affirmation, as we have when the scientist
affirms anything that is true.
Therefore we conclude
that self-evidence is the true guide. The astronomer
tells to a minute when an eclipse of the sun or moon will