POLITICAL SYSTEMS.
"Every political system, good and bad alike, is in the lasf uiialysis a thing of the Spirit. It is maintained by Opinion, and by opiniott it is overthrown. If history and the ecofaomic environment supply the materials, it is human minds and wills that determine that edifice that shall be used to build and preserve it from decay. A ba.d "system, with a high degree of vitality, will always defeftt a better system without it. The source, and the otily permanent source, of vitality is conviction. Whatever conclusions may be drawn frotn the history of the last decade, one, surely, is indisputable. It is that democraey is unstable as a political system, as long as it remains a political system and nothing mqfe, instead of beitg, in addition, a form of society and a manner of life. Since to effect that next step is Within its own power, it has less to fear from shoeks from without than from nervelessness within." — Dr. R. H. Trelawney, g Worker|' Educationiti AsgQeiAlkn
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 4
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171POLITICAL SYSTEMS. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 4
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