THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Wanted—a Goal. “A nation, like an individual man. must look forward, or to all intents and appearances it ceases to live. The tragedy of our century is loss of faith, not in God, hut in man. Humanity is in desperate need of a new synthesis which will give meaning to life. Until that boon f; vouchsafed, our sparkling toys, increase though they may in number, and in splendour, will not bring <onont. lint the lack is hard to fill, for we require now not a Thomas Alva Edison, not a Henry Ford, but a Buddha, Confucius, Plato, some godlike philosopher able to take these scattered, glowing stones and rear them into a vast and luminous tower, rising to heaven, toward which all men's eyes shall he turned.— Robert Dull’lis in the ‘'Century Maga-
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1925, Page 2
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137THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1925, Page 2
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