TRUTH AND BEAUTY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 4

TRUTH AND BEAUTY

yUniyersality implies freedom from prejudices, which mostly spring from ignorance or n'arrowness of outlook. R means a fundamental impartiality and sensitiveness toward things and pcrsons, a williugness to learn, and a curiosity to understand whatever life may hring us up against. Life means a wideqing anfi deepening of experience. It means . our getting to know things, our acquiring a power of eontyol over them, a capacity to look before and after, to expand and universalise our experienee, and thus to risfe above the accidents and surprises which lie in wait for us round every corner. xHere ypu will hegin tp see this world, not as a matter of chance, a chaos, a mere jumhle of different jarring, warring things flung together at haphazard, hut as a unity, as a whole, pervaded hy laAV and order, in which our human life links up with apd erowns life universal and forms the climax of activities which peryade all things. The vision pf harmony in the universe, of principles of order and beauty, whieh are its very nature and constitution — this vision of trnth- and beauty once seen — will ever remain with you as the most - satisfying and ahiding experienee of your life. Ifc will give you peace in a world of unrest. Your soul will feed on this vision of order apd beauty in the world, and it will continue to grow on you till the end of your days. Science, philosophy, poetry, religion — all will help you to clarify ppd deepep that great jxperience for you. — Geneial Smuts,. "" "