Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1905 — TRUTH TRIUMPHS. [ARTICLE]

TRUTH TRIUMPHS.

Life -Is a Conflict, and Error Dies In the Struggle. Life is a struggle. Wars end, but the war of the race—the antagonism of thought, the strife between men, between man and the forces external to him, within the soul of the individualends not save it be with extinction. Error gains many a temporary triumph, but the final victory is with truth. There is substance in truth that in the last balance outweighs error. Nature's process is by test and trial, by unfolding, changing, ripping up, undoing, redoing. By contrast and conflict she tries sincerity and treachery, honor and dishonor, fitness and unfitness, courage and cowardice, truth and error. The conflict of ideas between social and political systems and between creeds and philosophies is as rude as the conflict between the sea and land. Error dies In the struggle.— From “Balance: The Fundamental Verity,” by Orlando J. Smith.