BORED WITH LIFE.
" There is' n6 more pathetie spectacle than that o*f an age which is bored with life. Materially our modern world is richer than perhaps any preceding age; spiritually we are paupers. Not all our truly wonderful physical aceomplishments, nor all our abundanee of amusements, and sensations, can hide the fact that we are poor within. In fact, the task of the latter is but to hide the 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 unhroken succession of ever-varying sensations that we have no time to notice the ahsence of life from within. There are hut 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 alone truly live; where we find the craving for amusement and sensation from without we see an ahject eonfession of inner lifelessness."r— Dr. y»n der Leeuw, in " Ihe Soul of Man in a Machine Age."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 11, 6 October 1937, Page 4
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