Account of the Medal Struck for the Society of Alethophiles in Berlin (1740) - Page 8

[continued from page 7] are sincerely striving to seek or to defend the truth. It would be quite shameful for you, and contrary to the actual nature of an ALETOPHILI Lover of Truth, if you wished to deny protection and assistance to someone whose intention matches your own.

V.

Contradict no truth when you feel within yourself that you have been convinced of it by others whose insight is more correct than your own. An ALETOPHILUS Lover of Truth would make himself unworthy of this name if he undertook to dispute the truth out of pride, out of stubbornness, or out of other unreasonable causes.

VI.

Have compassion for those who either do not know the truth, or [continue to page 9]