Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1890 — Foolish Consistency. [ARTICLE]

Foolish Consistency.

A man who is rigidly consistent admits himself to be no wiser to-day than he was yesterday. In order to keep with the times he must occasionally alter or modify his opinions. “A man will never change his mind who has no mind to change,” says Archbishop Whately, and Faraday expresses the same idea, when he charges us to remember that “In knowledge that man is only to be despised who is not in a state of transition. ” There is a medium between what a worthy old gentleman calls “whifflin’ about like a weathercock” and remaining rigidly In one rut of belief. Most of us know instances of men who cannot bring themselves to say anything which would contradict what they uttered last week or last year. A certain Irishman once declared that he had owned a hoise which was fifteen feet high. A few days after he referred to the same animal as having been fifteen hands high. “Bur,” said the listener, “you gave it the other day as fifteen feet.” “Did I, thin?" said Patrick. “Well, I’ll stick to it. He was fifteen feet high.” That was consistency in its extreme form.

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