CORRESPONDENCE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 July 1916, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

I On- correspondents' opinions are their own; the responsibility of editorial ones makes sufficient ballast for the editor's shoulders.j "THE SUPERNATURAL. (To The Editor.) Sir, —In u recent editorial on the "Supernatural," llie Chronicle sums up the situation as follows: ' When the world's people become sufficiently awake to ramifications and strange processes of tho occult systems that work and; are worked upon the earth, a better understanding of many forces of potential good will be arrived at ; there wili be less opportunity for charlatans and despots to impose their wills upon humanity." Quite true. Jt would appear that the world's people's peaceful slumber in these matters is due, on the one hand, to tho steady administration of ami esthetics bv a great variety of Tohunga and high priests of the supernatural. And. on the other ha'fid, to the agencies which haee it in their power to mould and guide public thought, chief among which stands the press, in shrinking from their duty of telling the world's people what ie tho truth. It suits a certain class to keep the musses faltering and confused in the dark corridors of the supernatural. So ignorance, mastered by fear, blocks man's advance. Solf-conatibcted "supermen" (alas, Horatio!) of every country invariably claim, by word or by implication, to be terrestrial agents of some deity. in reality, in most cases, they do not cure a snap of the linger for any o>f the two thousand odd of world's creeds themselves. But they shrewdly realize, and it is their settied policy that fear of the supernatural turns the masses inio sheep which can easily be shorn, and they do get shorn; the honest, well-meaning, coniidiiig sheep—the masses of every country.

Science rests on facts deducted by man's minute observation and study of the laws goverr* .the universe. It progresses as man's mind expands. What mail does not know he "believes." Beliefs in supernatural agencies arc as plentifcl and variegated as leave in Valhambrosa. In Tact, I lie material that poor man has swalViwed, and is still being asked to swallow, in .supernatural beliefs would suggest that his governors have the greatest possible amount ol contempt f'\r his intelligence. Is it too much to hope that the many withered and mouldy leaves of dogma wilt be scattered to the winds by the great war and leave behind saner and truer Influences, those which are in harmony with man's steady growth towards perfection.—l am, etc. FIAT LUX. Weraroa, July 25, 1916.