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                                %CONCEPTUAL BALANCE 870407

     For   intellectual  activity  to sustain personal and
communal  integrity  it must sustain  conceptual  balance.
Any  tendency  to  emphasize one set of  concepts  to  the
exclusion  of  appropriate  attention  upon  complementary
concepts  will tend to promote disintegration.   No set of
exclusionary  principles is the essence of avoiding  bias,
for  it is the essence of bias to entail the exclusion  of
complementary conceptions, ideals, values, persons, etc.

     No distinctive set of concepts can alone be the basis
for   sustaining   integrity.     Thus   no    distinctive
intellectual discipline or  specialty can legitimately lay
claim   to  being  the  exclusive  means   to   salvation;
regardless  of  any  pretense  as  to  absence  of   bias,
closeness to the wellsprings of divine power and judgment,
convergent  human judgment,  technological sophistication,
coercive power, etc.

     Specialists who fail to make use of the full range of
concepts  which are essential to conceptual balance should
be  suspected of intellectual  bias and blindness.    Such
failures  are  not adequately  compensated for by  unusual
sophistication which has been achieved at the  expense  of
balance.  No matter how brilliant a person is, specialized
sophistication  is achieved at the expense of  integrative
balance.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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