"MANNERS MAKYTH MAN"
tl ' Manners makyth man' is perhaps the most conclae speciflc diagnosis ever published," says Professor H. L. Hawkins, D.So^ and points out the result if mankind as a whole neglects its manners. . " The specifio causes of the collapse of once dominant races are doubtless varied," he says, 4hut there is general agreement that one universal factor in disintegration is complexity, an aspect of overspecialieation. The units of an empire, be they individuals or factions, tend to work together in harmony during the period of upward struggle; but when a position of dominance is won, they continue to struggle. When there are no new worlds to conquer they begin to fight 'among tbemselves. Selflsh aims replace patriotio ones, and the community becomes discordant. The correspondence between this stale of affairs and the morphogenetic trends in other races of animals is so close that it needs no elaboration. Those who deny that human institutions are subject to the laws of organic revolution know either no history or no Palaeontology. Many proverbs give epigrammatio statements of the principles of evolution in imaginative terms.''
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 4
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