jor, यअझझfञ [ कांसिंक وی هاه তোমার লক্ষ্য তাহাতে কৃতকাৰ্য্য হও ভালই, না হও তথাচ ভাল, কেন না তোমার যাহা কৰ্ত্তব্য তাহা করা হইল ॥৫ নূতন সত্য নিৰ্ভয়ে প্রচার করিতে হইবে বটে, কিন্তু প্রচারের প্রণালী কি প্রকার হওয়া উচিত ? আমাদিগের বিবেচনায় সম্পূর্ণরূপ জাতীয় রুচির অনুবর্তী হওয়া কৰ্ত্তব্য। লোকভয়ে বিন্দুমাত্র সত্যের অপলাপ করিব না, অথচ প্রচার প্রণালী সম্বন্ধে দেশের লোকের যাহা ভাল লাগে তাহাই করিতে হইবে । সংক্ষেপত: আমাদিগের ইহাই মত যে, যাহাতে শারীরিক মানসিক বা আধ্যাত্মিক কোন প্রকার অমঙ্গল প্রসূত না হয়, এমন সকল বিষয়ে সম্পূর্ণরূপে জাতীয় ভাব রক্ষা করিয়া চলা উচিত ।
- Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highest truth lest it should be too much in advance of the time, may re assure himself by looking at his acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself, that his opinion rightly forms part òf that agency, is a unit of force, constituting, with other such units, the general power which works out social changes and he will perceive that he may properly give full utterance to his innermost conviction, leaving it to produce what effect it Inay. It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities, and aspirations and beliefs is not an accident, but a product of the time, He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let due. He, like every other man, may properly consider himself as one of the myriad agencies through whom works the Unknown Cause, and when the Unknown Cause produces in him a certain belief he is thereby authorized to profess and act out that belief. For, to render in their highest sense the words
of the poet :— Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. Not adventitious. therefore, will the wise man regard the faith which is in him. The highest truth he sees he will fearlessly utter ; knowing that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing his right part in the world—knowing that if he can effect the change he aims at—well: if not—well also though not so well. First Principles, by Herbert Spencer, Third Edition p. 128.
