DISILLUSIONMENT
"The modern mind — determined to put truth in the first place J profoundly influenced by the experience of the Great War; filled with anxiety as it sees the forces gatherhig which may bring about a. repetition; sensitive to the wretched social conditions that hlight the lives of a great part of the world's population — will not consent to be soothed by illusions. It is angered rather than comforted by 'robust optimism' of the nineteenth-century kind— 'God's in His Heaven — All's right with the world.' It has learnt, too. that the great discovery of nineteenth-century science does not as was thought, bring reassurance; evolution does not guarantee progress. There is no automatic forCe in the nature of things which will carry us forward^ irrespective of our own efforts. Biology .finds too many examples of the deterioration and the extinction of species, and human history too many examples of the decline and the disappearance of oivilisations, to allow us to rest in the simple faith that the discovery of the principle of evolution disposes of the problem of evil." — Viscount Samnel, in " Everyday Philosophy."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 73, 18 December 1937, Page 4
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183DISILLUSIONMENT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 73, 18 December 1937, Page 4
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