WHAT REALLY MATTERS
"The biologist's reading of the p'ast suggests that we lay too great stress upon war. Our imagination is carried away by drama; and so our history books are still on the whole records of wars, with scarcely a word about those slow currents of Hfe, scarcely to be pereeived, that flow in a nation when there is no war, that continue to flow in the midst of war. Our newspapers, giving what we ask, seize upon the same dramatic items — again columns given to wars and ruinours of war and preparation for wars; columns given to the trial of murder of some unbalaneed creature. Scarcely a word about the quiet but effective work of millions of citizens. That is no balanced picture of life; yet that is the picture which is.held before us and which helps to colour our thoughts. War or no war, the world of living things progresses steadily from one step to a higher." — Professor James Ritchie in a speech reported in the Scotsman.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 11, 28 January 1937, Page 4
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