A BORED AGE.
" There is no more pathetic speotacle than that of an age which is bored with life," said Dr. van der Leeuw at the New Education Fellowship Conference in South Africa. " Materially our modern world is richer than perhaps any preceding age; spiritually we are paupers. Not all our truly wonderful physical accomplishments, not all our abundance of amusements, and sensations, can hide the fact that we are poor within. In fact; the task of the latter is but to hide thc poverty within. When our inner life is arid, we must needs create artificial stimuli from without to provide a substitute, or at least cause such an unbroken succession of ever-varying sensations that we have no time to notice the absence of life from within. There are but few who can bear either solitude or silence and find a wealth of life arising in themselves even when there is naught from without to stimulate. Yet such alone are happy, such"91 alone truly live; where we find the craving for amusement and sensation from without we see an abjeet confession of inner lifelessness."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 4
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185A BORED AGE. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 4
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