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Evening Star, Issue 14574, 24 May 1911, Page 2

MARK RUTHERFORD’S SAYINGS. “ The certainty which gomes of intelligent conviction is a tempered certainty. Its possessor knows the difficulty of the path by which he has reached it, and tho reasons which on his way have appeared so potent against it. Fanaticism is the accompaniment of Conclusions which are not the result of recson.” “ Controversy is demoralising. Never suffer yourself to become an advocate. Never rely on controversy to convince. Say what you have to say and leave it. Do it if you wish to persuade.” “ What a vile antithesis is that between a man and his faults ! If I love a man I do not love his faults, for- they are abstractions, but I Jove a man in his faults. Are they not truly himself? He is often more himself in his faults than in his virtues.” “ There it but little thinking, or perhaps it is more correct to say but little refleCj tion, in the Bible. There is profound sympathy with a few truths, but ideas are not sought for their own sake. Carlyle is Biblical. It has been said scoffingly that he ~is no thinker. It is hie glory that he is not.”—From ‘More Pages from a Journal.’ At the level of the sea 100 cubic inches of air weigh 31gr,