Facing both ways.

Quadrant | April 1, 1998| | Copyright

SURELY ONE of the most curious characteristics of the human mind is its capacity, at any given moment, to be holding and espousing two wholly contradictory ideas. We don't like to think of our minds in this way. We prefer to view ourselves as holding a rational, well-thought-out position on all those subjects which interest us; we take it for granted that we are consistent, more or less.

True, like Emerson, those of us who are not fanatics concede that an excess of consistency may be "the hobgoblin of small minds"; we acknowledge that sometimes further information ...

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