Some Modern Delusions.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1922, Page 3

Some Modern Delusions.

LONDON, r> - I),- Frank Crane, speaking at the Kindish-Spenking Union luncheon, said . “There are several deinstalls almost universally believed in. One of them is Met work is an afhlictmu. It is not. The hulk of the happiness of Tbo world is a by-product- of work. HW»H« « „„t something that .times to Ufi -'Het we get through, n is something that characterises life itself: the daily business of life The trouble with all . hi,- - t . s is that tliev consider work as it Are going to gaol. Work is a natural forth-putting of human Wongs, A il. alone do we find the pc-rman-(.„t form of iov. R. I- Stevenson <1 tl'nt the true Another 7XX: T - effective, l-'verv nation is founded upon this mi.n----l From the days of i-omptering c.-eoee and Imperial Rome down to the «1-I.vs of til- Tsar and the Kaiser, nations have tried to defend tlu-rnsrhes v arms, and every one of them ha | i.., n dest roved. The oi.lv nation that t ' not done this is the oiilv nation ti, n ,t has continued. That i- C hit a. Tit. I -ta. """‘"T 'S r, its military lories. and . " strength of every country .s i « » «■ >

-hi., with other I'om,tries. Act an u• rlelcsiioii is that happiness is something ■obtainable; something you can ■dl are bust- amas.simr things, notwithstanding the fail th.-.d in all the thoiisLds of ve.ars of human experience nobody has eve.- got together enough (Lilies to make him happy, Iluppim. is "matter of adjust liionl. not possession As Thomas Carlyle said, happm;.Ss, is as the value of a common fraction of which the numerator is what •vour have, and the denominator Us what von think you ought to have. Frols 'are busv trying to increase the fraction hv multiplying the numerator. The onlv wav we know whether a thing is true or not. as William -lames pointP(1 out, is whet Ikm- it will \\<>ik. I know these four delusions are false, tor the simple reason that they never worked.”