THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Optimism And Pessimism. “It is easy to be optimistic if you are only ignorant enough or blind enough. The world is a very attractive place, when all the ugly facts are shut off: if you do not know of them, or if you close your eyes to them, tho .system of things is pleasant enough. But these things are there, whether you see them or not, and any optimism which lias a right to exist must reckon with them. But there is a pessimism which is just as shallow as some optimists, a pessimism which is as blind to the joy that is set before us and around us as optimism may be blind to the tragedies. Both pessimism and optimism may he purely sentimental and temperamental, and our oniy reasonable reconciliation with the world comes from seeing it steadily and seeing it whole.” —The “Expository Times.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1926, Page 2
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151THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1926, Page 2
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