For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Explanation:
The author has used this phrase in the excerpt to explain the thoughts that he has about life. He believes that every truth should be known whether it costs heavily. The best truth is determined by the experiments. You will only listen to others words but will not memorize and remember it until you learn things through experiments.
The story ' The celebrated jumping frog of calaveras country' is more of a tall tale and is not really realistic. It is based on Greek story and is about two or three thousand years old.
