Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
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right to attempt to explain gravitation. We know nothing about
it. We simply know NOTHING about it." Darwin asks, without answering his question: "Who can explain what is the essence of the attraction of gravitation?" ---- To our doubting friends we say: Doubt if you must. But doubt intelligently and doubt first of all your own blind kitten wisdom. Remember that you at least know absolutely nothing. Study and think. Read. But don't let the half-developed wisdom of others choke up your brain and leave you a mere clogged-up doubting machine. Whatever you do, never interfere with the faith of others. Spread KNOWLEDGE, spread FACTS. Keep to yourself the doubts that would disturb others' happiness and do them no good. Tell what you KNOW. Keep quiet about what you GUESS. HAVE THE ANIMALS SOULS? "For that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; YEA, THEY HAVE ALL ONE BREATH; SO THAT A MAN HATH NO PRE-EMINENCE ABOVE A BEAST: for all is vanity. "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the |
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