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individual into a good, trustworthy witness who is called upon to
testify for the first, and, perhaps, for the last time in his life. This training must in each case take two directions--it must make him _*want_ to tell the truth; it must make him _*able_ to tell the truth. The first requirement deals not only with the lie alone, it deals with the development of complete conscientiousness. How to face the lie itself can not be determined by means of training, but conscientious answers under examination can certainly be so acquired. We are not here considering people to whom truth is an utter stranger, who are fundamentally liars and whose very existence is a libel on mankind. We consider here only those people who have been unaccustomed to speaking the full and unadulterated truth, who have contented themselves throughout their lives with ``approximately,'' and have never had the opportunity of learning the value of veracity. It may be said that a disturbingly large number of
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