LIVING ON MORAL CAPITAL
"For some years past we have beeii living on the moral capital stoted Up by our forefathers, and inherited by us. as part of the great tradition of English life,'' writes "Coinmentatox'" in the Liverpool Post "Men and women Who have a.lmiost Without thought, thrown off the religious habits of their fathers usually fail to reoognise irow much they oWo to the inheritance they are expending. Not one of them but has druiik deep]y of a well of living water whicli is the reservoir of all that is best in the nation' s life. Eyefl as he learned to speak the words of • his mother-tongue there were carried into his mind the ideas aud sentiineiits aiid convictions of the- grave and reverent traditions of our race. Tlie soul within4 him is not nly supported day by day,
but Was itself niOtilded and shaped hy| these deep things. Has he no respoft«i«* bility for maintainihg, fldt to say eUrxching, the heritage ? In, too maflyj M instances apparently not. He standi v alo-of as though he had no responsibility at all."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 14
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