MODERNS AND ANCIENTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 13

MODERNS AND ANCIENTS.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS. Sir,—Your correspondents, "JS.S.," "Superior," and "V.M.A." are, apparently, keenly interested in the matters of whether we should be moderns or ancients. Well, why not strike a happy medium? Lot them consider, for a while, how we really progress. Wo walk, .or march, forward, let us say, with one foot in advance, and one backward. This presenves balance in a constantly revolving world. Why not, metaphorically, take one step forward, in life, for progress, keeping one in reserve, say, for reference? The rest of the world may then be as unstable as it desires, but wo should thus retain our balance. Wo cannot totally disregard laws and rules that have persisted through the ages: they must be right, to have persisted. And we must keep up to date. The ultra moderns dp seem, at times, to have quite lost sight of the fact that this planet, Earth, exists for the purposes of creaction, and those who are deliberately upsetting this purpose will reap their deserts later. We are told that the children shall inherit the earth, and those ungovernable individuals who seek to upset their due inheritance are doing a vejy serious wrong, as in the course of natural sequences the younger generation cannot be prevented from carrying out their purpose, allotted them by what one might term first intention Our menfolk at present would seem to be the worst offenders, being carried away by a wave of sensationalism that has blinded their sense of justice and proportion—a state of affaire that at one time was almost invariably attributed to the opposite sex. Howbeit, better times.—Yours, etc.. FBSTI'XA LENTE.