Article February 10, 1962 Issue

Signs of the Times

Optatus

The Chronicle

From a column by "Optatus" in The Chronicle Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, Africa

Ideals are not a creation of the human brain. What we so often call ideals are not conceptions we have created; they are realities which we have discovered.

When Isaac Newton saw the apple drop from the tree, and the idea of gravity flashed across his mind, he did not make the law of gravity; he found it—it was before, it always had been.

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