THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Seven Ages. In his new book, the author of “The Mirrors of Downing Street” traces the main current of human thought from the age of Socrates down to tho present time. Tho book is written with great simplicity. The author’s purpose is to help the plain man to understand how it is he holds his opinions. to trace, as it were, the pedigree of his ideas, to dig down to the roots of his thoughts. Civilisation is now in the hands of the average person. The whole fortunes of the human race are committed to a multitude of voters who have had little or no opportunity of acquainting themselves with the great, controversies of the past out ol which those fortunes have emerged to their present condition. To place in the hands of this multitude, a hook which simply and picturesquely, tells the narrative of the human mind may in the author's opinion, do at least something to safeguard the higher life of mankind.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1923, Page 2
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168THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1923, Page 2
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