PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1927, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION.

THE OFFICE BOY. “The only person in the business world who is completely free front fear is the office hov. It is not the trifling, if necessary, services he performs, hut the sense of undipped freedom he conveys that makes him the darling of every business house.” writes Aline W. Armstrong in “Harper’s Monthly.” “Still trailing clouds of glory, in his insouciant young person, lie brings to the harnessed, and harrassed persons for whom ho fetches and carries memories —at once comforting and tormenting—of the heaven from which they, too, have come. He hears oil his slender, inconsequent 'shoulders, the huge, portentous weight of some international hanking house, for example, as a feather. Everybody else aspires to do the same, and nobody else succeeds.”

THE CAPITAL “ S.” “ We spell the word science with a capital S. and then declare that Science affirms so and so or Science denies so and so, and submit our minds to Science's verdicts as though we were listening to the oracles of some demigod. But there is no such entity as ' Science.’ As Renonvier wittily remarked : * I should like very much to .meet this person I hear so much about, called Science.’ There is no such person. There arc many sciences, and each one consists of a body of observed facts and a system of judgments or generalisations concerning those facts, and behind the facts and the generalisations alike we must pi'ace a human mind or a succession of human minds.” Professor the Rev. R. J. Hutolmon, of Meadville. THE UNMEASURABLE THINGS. “ What the scientist seems to do is to attend only to those aspects of reality which harmonise with his preconceived picture of it, and which prove suitable to his method of treatment. He selects, in other words, aspects that can he weighed and measured. When he comes to things which are not mensurable, beauty, for example, or goodness, or the mystical experience of men who have communed with God. he leaves them severely alone, or, if he is forced to (notice them, dismisses them contemptuously as unreal. Are, then, these facts with which science deals the only ones concerned ? Tiie.answer seems to he that they are not. Are the methods of science applicable to the facts with which science does not normally deal? Again we must answer in the negative.”—C. E. M. .load, in the “ New Leader.”