"COLLECTIVISM"
HAVING ITS INNINGS "We are living in a generation when collectivism is obviously having its innings, and 'individualism' is one of the most popular words in the vocabulary," says an extract from The Speaker's Bible. "Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and Italy are different in theory and method, but they are identical in this —that they represent the extension of collective control over individual life. It builds a high altar to* uniformity and slays upon it the freedom of the soul. "Then, moved by mob hysteria, a whole generation is; led to tliinl? that this is something new and progressive, when all the time it is a desperate endeavour to get back to the far-off place where human society first started and from which for five thousand years the individual has been trying to fight free. "If ever there was a generation when this kind of thing needed to be said, it is now. Make 1 use of collective processes by all means, but do not sell to them your soul. If by individualism we mean selfishness, this is no time for that, but for public spirit and co-operation. "Nevertheless, the test of everything worth while in our collective life i.s what happens to individuals. The road to everything worth while think deep and vital) in our eollec-* live life is through individuals. The foundation-head of every-life is in individuals."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 149, 1 September 1941, Page 3
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