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CHAPTER VII

ARE EDUCATED JINGOES HONEST?

To many this outbreak of Jingoism has been peculiarly serviceable in revealing the true character of friends and acquaintances. In some cases the revelation has been peculiarly painful, because it has raised suspicions as to the intellectual honesty of men and women whom they have respected in the past, and to whom they have been attached by many bonds of fellowship. Some, it is true, urge them to put aside such suspicions as 'unworthy,' saying: "Surely you can admit that persons may differ from you, even on a vital issue like this, without imputing dishonourable motives to them. You have no more right to regard their convictions as dishonest than they have to denounce you as a traitor."

Now, this advice is generous; how far is it just? The question of intellectual honesty is

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