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Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; and beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
-Horace Mann
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Spurn Not At Seeming Error, But Dig

Horace Mann
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; and beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. error is neither mind nor one of mind's faculties. error is the contradiction of truth. error is a belief without understanding. error is unreal because untrue. it is that which stemma to be and is not. if error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. thus we should continue to lose the standard of truth.
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Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. we spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.
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