THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1923, Page 2

THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

To-day. “In this distracted Time of ours,” wrote Carlyle eighty-nine years ago, “wherein men have lost their old lodestars, and wandered after night-fires and foolish will-o’-wisps, and all tilings in that -shaking of the nations.’ have Ibeen tumbled into chaos, tho high made low and the low mado high. . in this so despicable Time. . . •’ and so on. There have been disturbed eras liefore this, and probably, will be again and somebody, half a century hence, will dig up the forebodings of writers of to-day. just as some of us now read and find comfort that- was never meant in the doleful reflections and gloomy prophecies of those who thought chaos had come in F.ngland. in 1832. As we now know. England had never been such an England as she became .after that, nor do we doubt in the least -''a* the progress will go right on and Hut the discontents of the present lime, ate not only preliminary, hut e-sentml. to the greater future. Do not despise "this so despicaole Time.” To-day is yours. It is the only day you can call your own. Live, it.

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