THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Bio ins —and Pvtucs. ‘■Wo live in a world in which the insistence is more than ever upon •rights.’ Their ambit is being constantly enlarged. Children have a ‘right’ to be fed, clothed, educated, -doctored and generally eared tor at the cost of the community; men and women have a ‘right’ to food, housing, good wages, pensions, and many other things. Few would dispute the existence of these rights, but it is a real misfortune that those who have most to say about them have, apparently so little to say about the complementary duties which these rights of necessity involve. And yet. if history emphasises anything, it is the doom which awaits those notions which interpret eitzenship in the terms of riglits to the exclusion of duties. Circumstances have hitherto made an insistence on the rights of man necessary, but it can hardly be questioned that the immediate task is that of emphasising afresh the responsibilities of citizenship.”— B. Wilberforcc Allen, in “Methodism and Model - * World Problems.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1927, Page 2
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171THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1927, Page 2
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