To begin then; truth, as the positivists speak of it, is plainly a thing that is to be worshipped in two ways--firstly by its discovery, and secondly by its publication.

Thus Professor Huxley, however much it may pain him, will not hide from himself the fact that there is no God; and however bad this knowledge may be for humanity, his highest and most sacred duty still consists in imparting it.

Now why should this be?
I ask.

Is it simply because the fact in question is the truth?
That surely cannot be so, as a few other examples will show us.

A man discovers that his wife has been seduced by his best friend.