Seeing Both Sides

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 15

Seeing Both Sides

There are, I suppose, people who think too much.” They suffer from a multiplicity of mental images (writes Miss Edith Severn, in You). These images aro apt to be vivid and persistent, and tend to a permanent state of intellectual doubt, if not actual bewilderment. They are tormented by a mental conflict which is as disturbing as an emotional conflict. They usually see both sides of a question at once, and can argue equally well for tho affirmative or negative, and though this capa city may at times produce confusion and annoyance, it is a distinct advantage when it can be held in chock; for it i 3 true that tho more highly intellectual a man becomes, tho less partisan ho is able to be. The “judicial temperament”’ is rarely, if ever, united to an insignificant intellect; but it needs strong sympathies and a unified will to make it effective. The ability to see a . problem from all angles is the mark not only of broadmindedness, but is tho essential point of departure for a student of truth.