Stable Reality through Synthesis
of Universal Truth
If the whole personality of man be tethered to a stable reality, greater progress can be forthcoming through rightly exercising the prerogative of choice. Men feel the need to embrace an entire system of thought simply because some of its elements or most of them agree with their inner convictions; conversely, they frequently reject whole systems because they do not agree with one or more of their tenets. Let men accept truth for truth's sake alone and reject all else. Likewise, men must learn to disassociate personality from concepts when assessing the value of truth and abstain from criticizing any system of religion or philosophy simply because the professed followers may or may not live up to proffered ideals.
When men's idols fall as the result of an attempt at the personification of ideals and disillusionment follows limited vision, it is well to remember that the human organization is the proving ground rather than the standard for those ultimate principles of truth which live independently of men's partial understanding or unsuccessful practice of them. Unity is the effective means of combating the common problems which beset the race. Individuals are needed who will dare to raise the banner of brotherhood as the symbol of common responsibility to erase the blights of disease, poverty, or any form of imperfection whatsoever, irrespective of its raid on self or neighbor. Objectivity, then, is the open door to peace and victory in "one-world truth" made manifest as divine stability.
Just as much of the good stated in various doctrines is found in many facets of expression according to the modes of the times, so in the case of Marx and Lenin and the whole fabric of Communism, much of the good framed therein is not exclusive to that system. Rather is it included in the universal ethic of the present civilization and specifically in the Christian and democratic ways of life. The blatant adulteration of essential truth through dialectical materialism, however, renders Communism, as a pattern for individual or national evolution, wholly unacceptable to the honest of heart.
America and other democracies have already adapted some progressive ideas of so-called communistic origin in state-supported welfare, social security, and federal subsidies in housing, highways, and interstate projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Likewise, Communist states, notwithstanding their avowed opposition to democracy, are susceptible to the fresh winds of freedom through mass education according to ability, which throughout history has been the beginning of the emancipation of the people. The synthesis of elements of opposing systems is the adaptation of universal truth, wherever found, to current social demands; and this must never be misconstrued as compromise or peaceful coexistence with error.
