ALL ROADS TO—WHERE?
"They all lead the same way home, these roads, whatever the signpost says, that's one thing sure. I've only to keep on and am bound to progress, no matter where the civilised world (so-called) as a whole may be bound," writes Hamish Maclaren in his hook, " Cockalorum." " Some say it's regularly retrogressing; and it surely looks so, on a superfioial survey; but I'm no croaker. There's a good argument for the case that the Sapiens crowd advances step by step toward some noble if at the moment obscure destiny, if only beoause it can't go back. And no doubt it's a marvellously inventive breed. The only principle I hold fast on to throughout is that of personal liberty; which, in spite of minor pests, is still more or less of a possibility in the Britannic lands. Ineffectual as it may be, our fumbling old democracy remains, according to my view, centuries ahead of the military conscriptive ramps, Fascist or Communist, I don't care what you call them; and my advice to Government is: keep it so at your peril."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370429.2.15.3
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 87, 29 April 1937, Page 4
Word Count
182ALL ROADS TO—WHERE? Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 87, 29 April 1937, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in