Reply #64: As He Agrees With You, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

Naturally you will view him as honest, and doubtless as brave, thrifty, reverent and loyal, and probably helpful and cheerful as well. His eye strikes me as pretty jaundiced, and his writings as obviously tailored by exaggerating some facts and suppressing others. It is true that he is knowledgeable, which in some ways makes the obvious slant of his efforts over-all more troubling. Persons who do know matters more deeply than the average run have, it seems to me, a duty to inform others first, and seek to persuade them afterwards, rather than take advantage of the less informed by seeking first their persuasion and informing them only incidently in the course of that project.