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Politics, Art, Religion - part 4
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Articles In This Section:
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 1
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 2
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 3
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 4
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 5
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 6
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 7
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 8
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This is the real art of the serious conversationalist, a manner so modest and conciliatory that everybody would like to be on his side if they could only see things his way. And good will wins more converts than good syllogisms. On the other hand, one positive, dogmatic statement, such as, "Free verse is simply a low form of poetry, that's all there is to it," will make everyone secretly hope that the speaker will fall over a dangling participle before the evening is over. The greatest authority in the world is not long welcome in a group, if he is positive and dogmatic.
Yet it is also true that the value of an authority should be to get the truth advanced a little faster, to help prevent inconclusive discussion. Therefore it seems to me a recognized authority on a topic may occasionally settle futile discussion on a point by saying, "While I hate to seem positive as to whether French or Spanish is more widely spoken, yet since our topic of languages has so many more significant and disputable phases, I would like to adduce that the best almanacs definitely state that some one hundred million people speak Spanish and only sixty million French. What is not settled is which language is richer in idiom." Now and then, it seems to me, a person who is a specialist has a right to shift the discussion from an easily verifiable point to a more profitable one. But always tactfully, and not often. One must remember that people are gathered conversationally, not to hear the truth as from an oracle, but by a groping exchange of evidence and reasons, and among blind alleys, pleasantly if slowly to come to feel the truth, as well as to find it.
However, despite all these cautions to the "brain trusters," the best conversationalist in matters of art, politics, sociology, and religion in the long run is the fellow who sees through life's glass less darkly than the rest. It is the person who in the fields where man's thought and research are engaged is most often right. Though people cannot recognize it as easily, it is just as important for a good conversationalist to have a high record for the truth as for a weatherman to have it for rain and a doctor for cures. All human thinking is a gigantic, restless effort to see better the ways of God to man and of man to God. The conversationalist who does most to scatter such light is the best one. Such a one must be a good and honest thinker, who painstakingly tries to see what is the best, truest, and wisest in the realms of man's vast activities and thoughts.
In national and political matters a good talker will be principled rather than partisan. Conversationally he will be less Democrat or Republican than an informal judge who weighs all the parties and their platforms on the scales of justice and wisdom, as against political expediency. One must feel of a good talker that he is never a partisan of anything but the good and the true. As soon as he seems to stand for any one party, right or wrong, he will degenerate from a conversationalist to a propagandist.
Nationally and internationally, a Christian conversationalist will try to correct the prejudices and errors of history, the lies and misrepresentations of war propaganda. Remembering Goethe's words that "national hatred is something peculiar" and that a sufficiently cultured person "stands to a certain extent above nations" (Conversations with Ecker-mann, March 14, 1830), he will strive to minimize national, racial, and ideological hatreds. He will promote international peace and understanding by siding strictly with truth and justice, on whichever side or nation these happen to lie. He will realize that a prophet's hardest duty is to point out that justice does not always lie with one's own country. His motto must be that so wonderfully proclaimed by Carl Schurz in his anti-imperialist speech in Chicago, in 1899, "Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."
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