MUDDLING THROUGH
" Lots o£ people, including many Englishmen, observing that the Englishman will not thin1' ahead, imagine that he will not or cannot think at all. This is a great mistake. He may be in this matter lazy, but he is not stupid. He may be unintellectual, but he is not unintelligent — very far from 't. On the contrary, when he does begin to think, he thinks to extremely good purpose. It is quite true that his thinking ten.ds to be limited in range. He is not much concerned with principles or with remote antecedents or consequences. His interest stops when he has solved the problem in hand. But up to that point his thinking is extremely efficient, and he is indeed one of the most intelligent ereatures on the face of the earth. The really important thing about England is not that she muddles, buC that she muddles through."— From a broadcast talk, "Men and Matters," by Principal Sir Hector J. W. Hetherington, LL.D., of Glasgow University.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 174, 10 August 1937, Page 6
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