Article March 4, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from E. Dean Ellenwood, A. T. Robertson

[The Christian Register]

Failures to think clearly are the most frequent facts of controversy. Earnestness and zeal for a cause make men commit sins of reasoning which would extend indefinitely the list of fallacies in text-books of logic. One idea screens their whole vision so they see everything in the changed colors produced by that idea. Thinking ceases to be a task of clearing a path of truth in the wilderness of experience and becomes merely gathering wood for the fire.

This is what makes so much discussion bootless and embittering. Each participant becomes an advocate rather than an explorer. He settles down in one place and fortifies it, instead of opening up a wider region for settlement. He contends for his own possessions, instead of developing the possibilities of the common good. He no longer seeks the truth, but only strives to have his one portion accepted as the whole.

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