And Never Cease to Search…

Dangerous though truth may be at times, it is not neatly so dangerous as ignorance is. Of course, ignorance, like all the other words we use, has various definitions and degrees. There is infinity of things of which all of us are ignorant. And with all our pressing forward into new frontiers, the absolutely ultimate answers seem not as yet to be in evidence.

And we have an obligation to search, to seek, to know more and more of all the world around us, and of all the universe beyond; to know more concerning ourselves; to know more and more about the tangibles that we can touch, and of the intangibles that are beyond our physical touch.

We have and obligation to seek “things both in heaven and in earth” and to have a greater awareness of all that happens all around us.

Always there are unanswered questions. There are endless things we do not know, and much that is true we cannot prove in the test tube. For much we must wait, and some we must accept on faith—until we find the ultimate answers. But we should never cease the search and never relinquish the right to look for truth of the disposition to do so.

We have a continuing obligation to overcome our ignorance, for “it is impossible… to be saved in ignorance.” And the ignorance least excusable would be willful, indifferent ignorance—ignorance that is too lazy to exert itself to read, to ask, to search, to seek.

In addition to all that has been revealed, in addition to all that has been discovered by others, we have an obligation to search for ourselves, with faith and intelligent purpose, and never be content with what we know. The search for truth is exciting, and anyone who isn’t interested has lost much of the incentive of life.