IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES.
^'Intolerance and the philosophy of violence oannot be refuted or defeated by counter-intolerance and countcr-violence, for the field of battle is spiritual and intellectual. Ideas and principles can be ~ displaced or defeated by only better ideas and sounder principles; and, if neeessary, by a readiness to suffer imprisonment or death in th0se— and they may prove to he a very limited number in each political community — to whom truth is greater than life, and life is intolerable without truth. Great cultural issues, no less than great spiritual issues, are at stake to-day, and will be in the future. Intellectually and morally, the civilised world walks on the edge of an abyss . . . The right that is in issue is the right, not only to iind truth, but to proclaim it when found, and leave tbe result to huraan reason and the will of God." — Sir Gharles Grant Robqrtson, vice-chancellor University pf Birxningham. ks- v
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 4
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156IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 4
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