If each individual ♂ or ♀ person •-{in our long line of ancestors}-• has 1 story to tell us; then would not that true story make each & every 1 of us much more a polyhistor or a polymath than we imagine we possibly could come to know? What fired my boilers in this search has come down to digging for those of my extended family who were born on one side of the Atlantic Ocean then died on the other, east to west. Which 1 motive •-{of any of our antecedents so made up}-• would so perfectly determine us so that we decide to take the chance to board a ship in Europe only to disembark in America? Whyd they do it? When did they do it? What happened later? What wonderful stories they could tell us. Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth. ——[Mohandas Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi (1869 –1948) «Basic Education» ©1951, p. 89]——
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:43:01 +0000
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