LIVING ON MORAL CAPITAL.
" Fon some years past we have been living on tlie moral eapital etored up by our forefathers, and inherited by us as part of the great tradition o£ English life," writes "Commentator" in the Liverpool Post. "Men and women who have almosfc without thought, thrown off the religious habits of their fathers usually fail to reeognise how much they owe to the inheritance they are expending. Not one of them but has drunk deeply of a well of liying water which is the reservoir of all that is best in the nation's life. Even as he learned to speak the words of his mother-tongue there were carried into his mind the ideas and sentiments axid convictions of the grave and reverent traditions of our race. The so.ul within him is not qxily supported day by day, but was itself moulded and shaped by thesb deep things. Has he lxo responsihility for maintaining, not to say enriching, the heritage? In too many instances apparently not. He stauds aloof a§ though he had no responsihility at all."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 4
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