"WHAT I BELIEVE."
Mr J7 BV Priestley, the well-kliown novelist, writing in the News Chronicle," says:— "I am convineed that our life is far more complicated and mysterious than it is now generally held to be. It is fertilised and refreshed by streams whose sources are unknown to us. Our separate individuality is largely an illusion, I think, for in spmt we mingle and share, but on the other hand what belongs to personal life though it is not so individual aS we ihiagine, is sacred, and is what the machinery of life exists to produce. , "Our fatal weakness in this age is to act as if this machinery were more imporfcant than the personal life. (For example, the State is only a hugh machine.> AU th? time we mistake the shadow for the suhst4nce. Thus, the arts are not an idle decoration, Jike so many flower-pots in an ocean liner. The arts give us a vision of reaiity 0f what life is reaUy like. Newton and Darwin will tell you how the machinery works, but it is Shakespeare and Beethoven and RembrOndt who will shoW you what the real stuff of life is. And • such a voice as-that which came from thc Mount in Galilee will tell us how we ought to feel and act in the prestence of this rcal ahiding life." wu-. — ^ ' .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 4
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