STARKNESS.
Humanity does not like starkness, it is tlie one tiling humanity cannot abide, so artistically and socially, and in all other ways of course, save for narrow interregnums of actual revolution, the history of the human race has been a history of concerted attempts to cover up or deny, by this fashion or that, the common fate. Cromwell tried to do this by prayer and persecution, the playwrights or the Restoration by laughter. The pendulum swings backwards and forward, and only for tlm second when it is in the exact axial position between the two extremes do we even begin to approach the truth, in other words the philosophy of the more egregious modern maidens and of Oxford bags is as far removed from reality as the philosophy of vapours and smelling-salts. The atheist is quite as mad as the fundamentalist, and hard-boiled youth is only the lever.se of soft-boiled senility.—Strothers Hurt in “ Scribner’s Magazine.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1927, Page 3
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156STARKNESS. Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1927, Page 3
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