INQUIRE OF THE FORMER AGE
by G. H. Lang

Hero worship is dangerous. Subjection of mind to one teacher, acceptance of a scheme of thought without searching into its principles and details, contention for a school of interpretation, are barriers to progress in knowledge. A good hen will find scraps on even a waste-heap. A keen-eyed spiritual botanist will detect a fair flower of truth among rank weeds of error. The true student gleans in all fields and gathers a large sheaf. Careful scrutiny of the differing lines of teaching here reviewed discerns truth in each and mistakes in all. Each looked from a different standpoint and saw features of the landscape others missed, and none saw the whole prospect. Had they patiently and quietly continued their joint survey their maps might presently have been made to correspond, instead of showing divergent features and roads.

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