Thoughts For The Times
j | Empire Thrills. What Scott gave us, and what Shackleton gave us as the guerdon of these superhuman struggles againßt nature, was the story of their great adventure; the example and the promise of their successful fight against fearful odds. Quiet hum-drum citizens, reading cosily by their firesides, acquire vicariously in the records of these voyages the magic thrill which drew the explorers into strange lands and perilous seas. The materialist will gay that thrills d</ not matter, hut that particular sort of thrill has built the British Empire. Sir Ernest Shackleton has served the Empire by reminding us all that the spirit of pure adventure still lives. —Lyttelton Times.
What Scott gave us, and what Shackleton gave us as the guerdon of these superhuman struggles againßt nature, was the story of their great adventure; the example and the promise of their
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1922, Page 2
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