SOCIAL DYNAMITE
In an address at the Seatoun Presbyterian Church the Rev. D. E. N. Merrington said that secularism was a sterile policy. If this is so, how is it that New Zealand, with secular education, has led the world in social reforms, including the Plunket Society, provision for the sick and aged, and so on? Why is !.V. £ G - Fr aser, author of the • Loloen Bough." a monumental work on anthropology (the study of man's customs and religious beliefs), written after 50 \ears of research I s .. " ot religious, while John Stuart v.'' , l , Political economist, was called by Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the Saint of Atheism? That secularism is a sterile policy takes some explanation. T. N\ MacRAE.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 126, 30 May 1942, Page 6
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120SOCIAL DYNAMITE Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 126, 30 May 1942, Page 6
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