Monday, September 17, 2007

Welcome to Steel Lore

Understanding is crucial or is that crucible?

To understand is to press your knowledge into the form or mold of the truth. As the late Mortimer Adler was so fond of saying, (something along these lines from a lecture I heard him give) "truth is that reality outside of us that is self evident regardless of whether we believe it or not."
The very nice feature of absolute truth is that it is not dependent upon adherents. It does not require a certain threshold of believers before it is enacted as law, or enters the official final draft. Truth can still exist without any proponents whatsoever.

With that being said here are some of the many truths of this blogger and the blog.

Steel, leather and wool are all very good indeed. This trinity of materials when linked together offers second to none performance. Shackleton could self admittedly never have survived and certainly Merriwether and William had no chance on the voyage without these three.