ยง I. "One strong thing I find here below," says
Carlyle,1 "the just thing, the true thing." "The cause2
thou fightest for, so far as it is true, no further, yet precisely so far, is very
sure of victory. The falsehood alone of it will be conquered, will be abolished, as it
ought to be; but the truth of it is part of Nature's own laws, cooperates with the
World's eternal tendencies, and cannot be conquered."
This testimony is true. But although it has come to be generally recognised at the
Often mixed
with
and used
to support
falsehood. |
present time that the sage in the Apocrypha was right in affirming "Magna3
est veritas, et praevalebit," yet it often happens that the power of Truth is
used to support Falsehood and gain credit for it for a time. The first lie ever
uttered in this world was more
