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Millions of ants come into existence and go out of existence, every day, without making any appreciable difference in the gradual processes of evolution. The same thing may be said of man or bats and whales. Surely it is high time that a well-educated person of the twentieth century should consider such things from a reasonable, scientific point-of-view."
There's no such thing as truth. There never was, and there never will be such a thing as truth. There's only point-of-view!..." "Well, I've got my point-of-view," John interrupted. "Yes, but on this paper we express the point-of-view of the man that owns it. That's him there!" He pointed to the companion picture to the portrait of Napoleon.
To regard a work of art as far as possible from the point-of-view of the artist is, indeed, the first principle of fair and intelligent criticism.
I state these few facts deliberately that you may know the personal bias of the man who wrote this history and may understand his point-of-view. The bibliography at the end of this book, which represents all sorts of opinions and views, will allow you to compare my ideas with those of other people.
Their first shallow mistake, as I have tried to show, is in overlooking the lessons of others' experience. This whole point-of-view, of course, is absolutely selfish and for the time being, I have been content to meet them on their own ground and answer them in terms of absolute selfishness.
This latter point-of-view was that of the firm of Gray & Vanrevel, which was a unit in such matters.
So this Mackay had an acutely interested audience, if a somewhat startled, and a somewhat cynical, one. A truly lion-hearted man this must have been, after all, to dare proclaim a point-of-view so at variance with the spirit of his age! One against four hundred millions, they bent one way, he the opposite, saying that they were wrong, all wrong!
"Thank you, littlest and wisest in the world!" The regiment was in motion again, skirting the room in column of fours, preparatory to the march-past: but now the Lieutenant-Governor surveyed it from a new, and a dual point-of-view, as a thousand individuals, that is, each a potential factor for immeasurable good in the coming rehabilitation of the state; and, then, as a vast fighting-machine perfect in every detail, resistless and awe-inspiring in its very integrity.
This growing point-of-view began to express itself quite noticeably in the past generation, at least in America. Thoughtful men, when they arrived at it, were inclined to keep it to themselves. They did not care to disturb the simple, whole-souled faith of their wives and mothers and children.
She has apparently given considerable thought to the problem of life, and the point-of-view she arrived at finally would seem to be a typical product of modern ideas. She believes first and foremost in the absolute right of the individual soul to recognize no master but itself to follow out its desires and aspirations to the fullest extent.
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