Pre-Conditions to Understanding

Pre-Conditions to Understanding Numerous persons have strong feelings against the prin ciple of violence and in favor of the principle of love, but rate their own competency as a student of liberty rather low and believe that this student approach, if adopted, would exclude them from any useful activity. This is a conclusion to be guarded against. Most of the people who have become leaders in any fieldhave been those who have developed their proficiency with great difficulty. Rarely is any unusual accomplish ment the result of a natural, unworked-for gift. The ad vanced students of liberty, who are so greatly needed at 53 this juncture in history, will spring from among those who properly rate their competency low but who are determined to raise it. These. strong feelings, coupled with this attitude of humility, are among the most import ant pre-conditions to understanding. These are priceless virtues.