THE BRITISH WAY.
" Th6 British people have olaitoed and claime'd with considerable right, that their success lay in never thinking too clearly how they did things. They kept to anoient forms and, by not inquiring too exactly into either history or their aCtuality, they made these forms serve any shift. They altered the -accent and so gradually changed the meaning and spirit of every thing while preserving the word. This is certainly possible and almost as certainly best — provided two things: that ehange does not beoome too rapid and that the thing yo^ are ohanging does not itself 'get a move on.' To-day we have to face the faot that neither of these provisions any longer exists. We ourselves know that we are changing and are certain only that there are more and more questions which we know have to be answered, but to which our inherited convOntions give no &nswer." — Mr Gerald Heard, in "Time and Tide,"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 61, 30 March 1937, Page 4
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