The Happy Ending of the Dark Morass?
"YOUNG ONCE."
(To the Editor) Sir, — On reading the article published in Saturday evening 's paper, "The Ruinous Cult of Infantilism," my first thought was: "They have eyes and see not; „ ears have they and hear not" the voice of the spirit of innocence and purity. Our Victorian mothers and fathers tried to keep for their children the happiness of innocence. "Ignorance is bliss," someone has said, and as the first years of life make their impress on childish character why not leave them as long as possible unaware of the hard facts of Adult life? It hurts to read the critic'ism of a soulless Aldous Huxley to whom the marvellous intuition of Wordsworth is inexplicable. I say it hurts — but why be hurt by the opinions of a man who cannot find pleasute in the genius of Charles Diekens and ppints a scoruful finger at Peter Pan? The 'sad truth is that the rising generation Tead these dangerous egoistic authors beeause they are clever enough to attraet attention. But what then? Far more satisfaction in the happy ending pf the fairly tale than the dark morateB and the mud-rake of tho new culture. — Yours, etc.,
Napier, April 3, 1937.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 66, 5 April 1937, Page 9
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