HUMANITY AND THE FUTURE.
" Humanity tegins to be thought of as a power able to mould' the future as it has been discovered to have moulded the past but more widely and deeply as it becomes consoious of itself. -Jhe'time offered in the future has no nearer limits than that revealed ih the past. The curtain rises on both sides of our vision at the same time, and while, on the one hand, we may slowly and painfully recongtruct the past from traces of thought and aotion left behind on the other, we sketch new forms of living with a freer hand, gui'ded by hope as well as science. "This process has gone on with increasing speed in the last century, since the great revolutionary movement threw up its host of prophets, philosophers and poets. We have added much to what they then knew and hoped,- and, in partieular, later thinkers have come to lay more stress on the inherent power of man to modify his own nature, if he determines on the effort and uses t.kfi uieans sMsJi kii 2m bm
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 76, 16 April 1937, Page 4
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182HUMANITY AND THE FUTURE. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 76, 16 April 1937, Page 4
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