THE INCONSISTENCY OF DISCOVERY.
“Discovery has made men more and more interested in things that were not the matters of chief interest to mankind. It did not matter to our happiness, now or afterwards, what the hypothetical constitution ol the atom might be. Vet men bad become so deluded by the prime of discovery that they were more absorbed in t Vs? question whether there was water communication between the Congo and the Nile basins than whether tho soul of man was immortal; more eager about a document of l:ntiquity found on a papyrus than as to whether those who had loved might be recovered in another world : more excited about the age of a fossil skull than whether it was right or wrong to marry two wives.”—Hilhirc Belloc.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1926, Page 3
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129THE INCONSISTENCY OF DISCOVERY. Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1926, Page 3
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