A WIDE OUTLOOK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2005, 12 March 1914, Page 4

A WIDE OUTLOOK

is his address at tho New Zealand Club's luncheon on Tuesday, Bam.- GtiEy appealed to Nt>.w 2eainnders to cultivate a wide outlook. The appeal was well worth makinc, and it is to be hoped that it will at least direct attention to sqmo of tie limitation* of oujt interests and

are too great to be measured by coin of the realm. New Zealand is a small and comparatively isolated part of the world, and. the best way to escape the dangers «f piuroehialr ism is to cultivate a mote intelligent interest in the .great world movements _of thought .and aetion. Local patriotism ought not to be despised—indeed, it ought to bs encouraged in- every passible tray. It is altogether tight that wo -should take a, pride in our city, and do our utmost as pubjk'spirited citizens to promote the well-being of the whole. Dominion; but our interests ought not to be confined.to the affairs of our own ■ country. We should also remember the wider responsibilities of Imperial citizenship, and ben* in mind that 'Kew Zealand forms pari of a great Empire. This Imperial, citizenship involves duties as well as and Ke'W Zeakuidcts ought not to allow them-Belves-to be so wrapped up in their own. affairs that they have no time

or thought to spare for those interests which they have in conimon with, thfi other British communities of which the Empire is comp@s.ed. The fuller recognition of these Imperial responsibilities is one of the results of that w|dc national outlook on which B-iRL. Grey lays so much stress.

sympathies. _ The visits of d-istiij-guisned public men like Eabi Gnfflf remind us of (.he doings of th i great world outside our own slioros and help to give us it truer sense of proportion hy stretching our vision beyond our own little bound-: ary fences. The coming to New Zealand of a party of scientists in connection with the meeting of the Brit" ish Association, which is to be held in Australia during the present year, should also do something .to widen our outlook, and make us feci more strongly than before the, great debt we all owe to those, met! who havo devoted their lives to the extension of human knowledge. In a sort of way we all admit that science has achieved wanders during the past century, but it is very doubtful whether the average man lias a, clear and adequate- under' standing of the enormous practical j importance of the work of the scien-; tisi. There is a widespread feeling; that a good deal_ of what is called ! modern stwnoe is eoncerfted with ■ curious things which really do not matter very much, and people often forget the far-reaching results of . sotnc apparently #se r less experiments. The tour of the British .'scientists should tend to correct and enlarge our views and to give its 0. keener realisation of the fas!; that all real knowledge is worth while, and that some values