WAS ONCE A WORLD CONSCIENCE
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Received Smlday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, May 25: No international machinery ;coulct bring peace ulile88 it had the di'iving spiritual foree oi: idealism, said Mr. Attlee whOil addressilig the Chitrch of Scotland Assembly. JNo social system will bring liappiness, health and prospei'ity unless inspired by something greater than materialisTn, " he said. He di'ew atteiitioil to tlie passilig of the idea of the eontinuous pfogress of eivilisation towards a higher staiidard of individiial conduct and more jtist society. "Tlie progress of the human race today was very unequal. There was advance in oue part and retreat in another. TheTe was olice a world conscieiiee whieh was outraged by cruelty bltt tlie last thirty years so matiy liorrors had been experieiiced that * sensibilities had lieen blunted. The very magnitude of the cruelties of whieh tlie world had been told, seemecl to rob ^lieni of their poignancy.The world needed spifitital leadeiMiip and tlie CfoveTniiient knew the need they had of the ehufelies. Whatever might he tlie differences between adherents of various churches, they were at oiie in holdiiig befoi'e maiikind absolute vaiites aiid Settfiig 8taiidard§ of conduct beyolid that of the self-interest of an ilidividuai group or nation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 May 1946, Page 5
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