THE CREATIVE SPIRIT
Human life is so various that every generalisation about men and -women is, almost necessarily false. Yet I don't think it is altogether false to see two main types among the people who actively influence the rest, of the world. On the one hand, you have, those who are moved by the love of power, the desire to dominate nature and other human beings; and. on the other hand., you have those who love life, who want to be. in harmony with nature and man. The first are almost inevitably destructive, since power ultimately rests on force and violence. The others are what I should, call the creative spirits. Indeed, the distinction applies, to even the humblest
; of us% depending upon Avhether avc ' are the slaves of the PoAver spirit 1 or whether avc. try to create a life of our own. There is no .life without passion, Avithout. Avarmth, Avithout tlie sensibility of Avonder, Power admires nothing but itself. The poorer the inner life the; less the capacity for •sympathy" Avith what, is outside.— Richard Aldington,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 61, 2 April 1943, Page 2
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180THE CREATIVE SPIRIT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 61, 2 April 1943, Page 2
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