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ABOUT PEOPLE.

others, we hesitate to affirm what is good in our own opinion, our very charity often causing our disloyalty.

Loyalty involves the relations between ourselves and some truth or duty. Liberality the relations between ourselves and persons. Both demand courage; one demands breadth. Each should keep equal pace in growth, for each is the complement of the other. Loyalty is faithfulness and adherence to one's country, friend, faith, duty, or opinion, by open acknowledgment in word and act. It is always free and generous, and seeks to strengthen whatever it deems worthy of belief. It gives persistence and enthusiasm to character. It is a certainty of faith, which may or may not be a heritage of joy. In either case it may cause separation in thought or act from those who have other objects of fealty. It should include the propagation of one's belief just so far as such spreading of it does not entail persecution. About any unit of thought, environed by

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