Moral and Intellectual Attitudes

The student attitude is more than a matter of mere assertion. It is more than finding out what is known. It requires the rare quality of finding out that which is not known. The reporting of what is found out to those who are anxious to know is important but, still, even this is incidental to the search. Moral and Intellectual Attitudes There is one other difficulty. As one does not become eligible as a "graduate" student until certain scholastic conditions are met, so it is that one cannot advance as a student of liberty, or qualify himself as a searcher for truth, until certain moral and intellectual attitudes, ante cedent to receptiveness, are adopted. One not truthful and not humble and not teachable can no more grasp the 50 evasive qualities and meanings of liberty than can an idiot comprehend the science of nuclear fission.As Goethe stated it: ". . . only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she [Nature] resign herself, and reveal her secrets."