HUMAN WORTH.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 30, 29 October 1937, Page 4

HUMAN WORTH.

"We owe a greater debt of gratitude than is commo^ly paid rm those of our statesmen who refuse to surrender hope and v.'T" CZZZ tinue strenuously to curb the madness of the nations. Bufc ordinary people can do much by changing their own manner of thought, and especially by seeking to recovcr a sancr standard of values. It is almost certain tbat the modern disparagemcnt of personal Avorth has proceeded collaterally with a deeline in personal iinmortality. For various reasons, not all of them ignoble, that belief has rapidly waned in modern times, until many even of those who still cling to it do so somewhat desperately and half apologetically. It is diffieult to see how respect for personality can be recovered apart from a revived consciousness of the worth of the individual to the Eeternal Mind; that is, to God. "The shadow of the philosopher has always been over the politician, though of ten unnoticed, and in days to come when mankind has struggled through its present anxieties it will be seen tbat those who wrestled with the problem of human destiny were making their peculiar but vital contribution to the resolution of issues that seemed superficially to be the problems of statesmen alone. Thus it is, that in the scholaFs study, in pulpit and pew, in discussion eircles, laboratories, and in the deeper recesses of personal experience, the truc estimate of human worth will be rediscovered, and the devilish ethic pf Jhg bombay exploded 1"=-Xh9 Inquixer.