WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 207, 27 May 1919, Page 5

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Lord B'jickmaster, the ex-Lord Chancollor, writing in "Weekly Dispatch" on "Where are wo Going?" says:

"The war broke to pieces our wholo social and industrial system, and tho atoms will not reshape themselvc-s into tho old pattern. But there "is no need to weep over the funeral of the past. "Now is the creative moment of our social life, and, given good will and a readiness for each man to see how tlio world looks from another's eyes, wo may mako the future in a pattern of a liner and inoro glorious design than any the world has seen.

'"Lack- of knowledge, lock of courage, lack of faith, these aro the fatal deficiencies. Without knowledge you dannot do justice.' Without courago there is no achievement. Without faith there can be no zeal.

"We MQ witnessing in Europe not merely the overthrow of militarism, but the overthrow of social order and of all the means by which man has with slow; and painful effort emerged into civilisation. _ "Change, even profound and drastic change, can be accomplished without breaking to pieces the wholo social organisation which it is desired to alter. But once destroy, ruin and confusion will follow, and no man can venture to saythat the future will be better than the past."