VALUE OF HONOUR.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 71, 10 April 1937, Page 4

VALUE OF HONOUR.

" When we speak of experience we mean and can only mean the experience of a self, for there is no other kind of experience. Everything is in consciousness, or we have no evidenee for its existence. We talk of the irnport of this thing and the other. Where are these to be found in nature? Only in us. They cannot be exhumed or' distilled out of material movements. As well endeavonr to extract a skylark's song from the granite rook or honey from the salt sea. The awakening of the soul in nature — to take this unexampled, overwhelming fact as of course and for granted — as no singular event or anything out of the way noteworthy or surprising, or again as a thing of accident among other accidents, is for me no easier thought than the notion of the Himalayas giving way to laughter, or the ocean writing its autobiography. When we begin to suppose such notions we make a clown of reason and adorn it with cap and bells. The knowledge that the world exists, that there is a world at all, rests upon the testimony of individual selves. There is no other evidenee than they supply; no other possjible evidenee." — From " Ourselves," a paper by Ern eritu s -Professor W. Maoneile Dixon in his course of Gifford Lectures,