MIND OF A NATION
"In a decent society the individual must obey the law, but at the same time in a free society he will remain at liberty to criticise the law. Not only so, but he will remain at liberty to eombihe with others in order to set on foot moverqents which may result in.the constitutional alteration of the law. Complete freedom of diseussion is essential. The quite intolerable thing in Germany and Italy just now is that a mah dare not say what he thinks. In that way he is deprived of something that is vital for the development of personality. In a free State that right will always be jealously conserved. The endless discussions that go on in this country may seem to some of us at times to be rather weari'some and futile. But something of very great worth is none the less being conserved by them, and in the long run it is just through such discussions that the nation comes to know its own mind— or at least that part of the I" nation that has a mind. . . Dr. H, Gray in " The Oue Hope."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 52, 17 March 1937, Page 4
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