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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

A Fidelity to the Honest Truth

A Fidelity to the Honest Truth

both in statement of facts and in all deductions therefrom. As it now is, we find men and women coming amongst us hired to defend certain stated opinions; pledged to shape arguments and so-called facts to that end. If they cannot find facts already coined to their hands, they have established a mint for the special purpose of supplying facts which their "trusting hearers" will never recognise from the genuine article. And if any person is found with so much of the man in him as to expose the counterfeit, that man is set upon with the poisoned shafts of malice and slander. I detest to see the public platform made a sort of parrot-strutting rack, or a luring siren's rock.

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They have over in America several institutions which may be described as