Editorial March 17, 1945 Issue

No Mortal Opinions in Mind or in Man

Paul Stark Seeley

Emerson saw how heavy a load a human opinion may be in one's experience when he referred to "the deep slumber of a decided opinion."

One does not have to go far to encounter human opinion. Men and women—and often children too—have very definite opinions as to what they shall eat, how they shall dress, their own and others' conduct, the weather, art, politics, religion, and a thousand other things. Often when these opinions clash, fire and friction result; argument and ill will are generated.

Frequently a mortal's thinking is not much more than an assortment of opinions derived largely from other mortals, whose opinions he consents to accept as his own. What he reads and what he hears is mostly human opinion, and he selects such of it as appeals to his thought. Said David Lloyd,

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