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July 12, 2026

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood—we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we [are].

Jean Rostand (1894 -1977), French biologist and historian, Pensées d’un biologist (1939), Jay p. 313

MEDITATION: Can you cite—if only in your mind’s eye—examples of your own stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith or falsehood?

COMMENTARY: Never mind the same direction, some people see one or more of this array in the mirror each morning. Do you?

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