S. “And belonging to him?”
A. “Yes.”
S. “And doing—what, with regard to facts as they are? for this is just the thing which puzzles me.”
A. “Telling facts as they are.”
S. “Without seeing them as they are?”
A. “How you bore one! of course not. It sees facts as they are, and therefore tells them.”
S. “But perhaps it might see them as they are, and find it expedient, being of the same temperament as I, to hold its tongue about them? Would it then be still the spirit of truth?”
A. “It would, of course.”
S. “The man then who possesses the spirit of truth will see facts as they are?”
A. “He will.”