THE SPARK OF PERSONALITY.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 29, 18 February 1937, Page 4

THE SPARK OF PERSONALITY.

" If persottality is imperishable and in'destructibie, surely it is a foul wrong to stifle or wfiaken it in any State at the hands of any single Hictator, or a Govbrnment which may be inCrely a group of Dictators wbo have snatcbed a brief authbrity over httinan lives," writes Mr John Scott, in an artiele oii " Pbrsonality " in Chambers' Journal. "No doubt, in an Army, Navy or Air Foroe* the only possible basis of operation iS thftt the men should bs meehanised and not allbwed to think of reason, theirs ohly to obey. That is, elearly, the eondemhation bf Such a, system in a world bf refeporisible human beings, ahd pefsonality will nevbr coihe ihto its own widest kihgdom until the reigh bf universal peace, when military servioe will be no more. t " But equally stand condemned all class, mass or national mbvembn|s in which tbe ihdividual is noWhere ahd tbe class, mass or nation is eveirytbing} where iheh and women are ordered and driUed into submissibh albng certajn roads of eonduct* or drift with the current, with ihdependent thbught ahd judgment submbrged and the rights of personality obliterated. The Sthtb, the Soviet, br the XJnion is then not the servant, but tbe mastef, and tbe individual is the slave. Oh the ddntrary, there will never be a rightly ordered - World until the value of each individual is appreciated* and the fullest bppofthhity given to every man of intellectual freedom to aet according to his own thought and judgmeht, ahd to develop his own pefsonality, ahd fof every woman to hate this same privilege in full equality with men. . * . Bureaueracy is the deadly enemy of personality. Its red tape his strangled personality. The divided ahd shbdiyided respohsibility of officials, and their' irbh discipline, J^tyeg little scope for individual eiprfSSioh bf pbfibMliiy*,