September 9
Companions of the Way (Morning)For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
TILLOT- SON'S Funeral Sermon over Benjamin Whichcote, 1683
STUDIOUS and inquisitive men commonly at such an age (at forty or fifty at the utmost) have fixed and settled their judgments in most points, and, as it were, made their last understanding, supposing they have thought, or read, or heard what can be said on all sides of things, and after that they grow positive and impatient of contradiction, thinking it a disparagement to them to alter their judgment. But our deceased friend was so wise as to be willing to learn to the last; knowing that no man can grow wiser without some change of his mind, without gaining some knowledge which he had not, or correcting some error which he had before.
THE OPEN MIND