RIGHT WILL PREVAIL
r " Maehiavelli, with all his acuteness of ohservation, had a singular faeulty for failing to see factors of the first importance. Loudly as he professed to see things as they really were, he saw 5 them as. they really were not. Just as he depieted an art of war in which artillery played no part, so he depieted an art of government in which neither morals nor religion had any plaee. His estimate of human nature, on which his whole political system was based, was radically mistaken. He regarded man as entirely bad, and founded his system on that false assumption. He ignored good- • ness in man just as he ignored gunpowder in war. In that art of politics the conscience of mankind has repudiated the Machiavellian maxims, and the experience of the human race has demonstrated their folly. The records of history tend to show that Socrates and Plato wei^ right when they said that in the long run the knave and the fool are one and the same. For human society is established on moral foundations, and righteousness must in the end prevail." — Professar F. J, C. Hearnshaw, LL.D.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 4
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