THE DECAY OF TRUTH
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—Your leading article in last Saturday's "Post" on "The Decay of Truth" expresses the need of the present times wlien you declare it as "truth in action," and this applies not only to nations and political parties, but also to local bodies, business men, and all persons without exception. Lip service to the truth is the order of the day for this reason: "We have not the minds of our fathers, but the spirits of our mothers," or, as the poet puts it, "I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own.; teaching." The obligation to see that truth is put into action rests with the men rather than with the women' and the children, but if they are weak in their faith, too weak to be spurred'into action, they must needs have recourse to the "weaker sex" to inspire them to be strong. The chief trouble with men nowadays is that they are all too busy serving their own ends and neglecting the putting of truth into action. However t all we have to do when men are not prepared to act on their own initiative is to wait for "the truth" to turn up again, for, as you say, "truth, trodden in the mire, has been known to take root and flower agani."—l am, etc., : T. F. SIMPSON.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 10
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239THE DECAY OF TRUTH Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 10
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