The Supreme Value of Skeptics & Free Thinkers

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Listen to episode 1027 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Supreme Value of Skeptics & Free Thinkers. Edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The word "skeptic" is from the Greek. Its root meaning is "one who is looking for the truth," "who is thoughtful," "who considers," "an inquirer after facts." Yet we are often warned against falling prey to "skepticism," just as long ago the skeptic was viewed as a criminal because they would persist in declining to accept as truth, without inquiry, what the public considered facts, embodied in religious dogmas — which today have been replaced by social dogmas.

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1:11.3	Welcome to the inspirationalirational Living podcast.
1:28.6	Today's reading was edited and adapted from All's Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb, published in 1897.
1:43.7	It is a custom of retailers to have an annual taking account of stock.
1:52.0	At such times they examine carefully the goods on hand, clear the shelves of unsaleable articles, mark down those that have become shop-worn
2:04.3	or out of season, and put new values on all for which there is unusual demand.
2:11.9	Just so in the thought life of a community, we find that periodically there is by general consent
2:19.8	a taking account of stock. Old standards and ideas are removed from the shelves and carefully
2:29.2	examined in the light of new discoveries. Their character and usefulness are challenged,
2:36.6	and their condition tested.
2:39.4	If they have become unserviceable for any reason,
2:43.0	and higher thought has led to higher standards,
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