Is there something as truth? For a good
many centuries "the search for truth" has been {{U}}(31) {{/U}} the
noblest activity of the human mind, but the seekers after truth have come to
such {{U}}(32) {{/U}} conclusions that it often seems that very
little progress has been made. {{U}}(33) {{/U}} ,there are many people
who reel that we are actually going backward. They {{U}} (34)
{{/U}} , often contemptuously, that we have accumulated more "knowledge"
than our ancestors, but they think we are farther from the truth than ever, or
even that we have {{U}}(35) {{/U}} the truth that we once
possessed. If people look for anything long enough
without finding it, the question naturally arises {{U}}(36) {{/U}}
the thing is really there to find. You have seen a picture of an animal with a
lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail—and maybe an eagle's wings for
good {{U}}(37) {{/U}} . There is plenty of evidence that each part of
this animal {{U}}(38) {{/U}} —but there is no {{U}}(39) {{/U}}
evidence that the parts ever occur in this combination. It is at least
conceivable that the seekers after "truth" have made a similar mistake and
invented an {{U}}(40) {{/U}}
combination.