35/44 We feel that much of our effort is wasted. We are often ready to give up in dismay, and recoil from our encounter with the powers of evil. Yes! But, with equal justice, he might have said, "How forcible are wrong words!" The wrong words have more power with ignorant minds than the right words. They fit themselves into wrong heads, and prejudiced heads, and empty heads; and have power over them. The right words have often no meaning for them, any more than if they were the words of some dead language. |