THE LIGHT THAT HAS DAWNED.
"Raeial, rqiigious and politieai p5rsecution are again appearing in many European countries. Intoleranee is once more looked upon, not as a return to barbarism, but as a sign of strength and patriotism and national diseipline. The gentler virtues and the hhman standpoiht inculoated by the Founder of the Christian religion are derided as signs of weakness, of an inferiority complex, and of deeay. ♦'"Whatever may he the ultimate outcome of the rival5 Fascist and Communist systems now eontending for mastery in Europe, I would ask you to believe that their hostilifcy to the principles of racial, religious and politieai toleration, must sureJy be a passing phase, a symptom of the confusion and unrest of the times, The human spirit, having once broken its primeval shackles, and emerged from its bondage, will never again submit to them for good. Evolution never reverts back to discarded for'ms or organs. And the light that has dawned on our human horizon can navsr p oyttiA uautij §et Gegeral Siuuts,. — — ^ ; ^ - -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 4
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170THE LIGHT THAT HAS DAWNED. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 4
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