DOCTRINE OF NIHILISM
MENACE FACING THE WORLD OF TO-DAY MAELSTROM OF DESTRUCTION "Wc are living in a world that threatens to brush aside everything that, intelligence stands for. lwo great wars and the prospect of more over half the population of the earth caught in this maelstrom of destruction; ten years of depression with millions everywhere still without employment; confusion over issues and values that leaves men frustrated and uncertain —it is little wonder the temptation is to forsake reason and resort to force. But force in the end always defeats itself. In the long run it solves nothing and answers nothing. It brings us no nearer the prospect of the ■gi-cat society' which science and culture have revealed. If the world of the future is a more promising habitation for mankind, it will be only as a result of the persistent application, not of force, but of intelligence against the things that now thwart our hopes."—Dr Fosdick, in the annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation, U.S.A.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 231, 30 October 1940, Page 7
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167DOCTRINE OF NIHILISM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 231, 30 October 1940, Page 7
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