Thoughts for the times
A Few Home Tucths,
‘• 1 am interested in politics only so far as they touch English character. I pav attention to politicians only when they seem to he earnestly engaged m some matter which vitally allects the historic character of the English pe.ipeople. . . The fate of the country is larpelv in the hands of men and women who have lost the shrewd and natural instincts of ignorance without gaining the d illicit 11 and compensating wisdom of culture. We are an urbanised nation of half-educated people. and it is a mark of the hall-educated to he sceptical. a oat hetie. unimaginative. and capricious. The awakening of such a nation us this to the true nature of the many great moral and economic changes confronting ciyilisainn i- one of the most urgent duties ol our time, as it is st Ist> mu* nl the luost elillirult. “A Gentleman with a Duster.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1924, Page 2
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154Thoughts for the times Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1924, Page 2
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