A QUESTIONING BEING
" Economic man has passed from an instinctive animal to the stage of rational, thinking, and, tlierefore, questioning being," said Sir Harry Lindsay, Director of the Imperial Institute, in a specch. The needs of the day and the satisfaction of these needs are not enough. His economic policy calls for long-range rather than short-range solutions. Is it safe to allow the individual uncontrolled to build up through herd methods the structure of national and international policy? "Is it not wisest to leave to him the manufacture of the bricks but to take from him the placing of them when they are made ? Surely the placing of bricks and the shaping of the structure demand collective thought and should not be left to individual effort, however well-intentioned. In otlicr words, if profit-making is to continue as the mainspring of individual human activity, should it not be subject to the interests of fche race and of iiumanity i» tgcms of year? rather ; than ponthil" ,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 73, 18 December 1937, Page 4
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