THE MEANING OF EXISTENCE.
Man is not fully-developed man just yot. when only a few out-top their follows : the time will surely come when all will he able to realise their birthright. Much of the present unrest is a groping after higher things, a feeling that this world cannot he all, that education and lesiure arc objects woitli struggling for; that there are prises beyond the present scope of the average man. Terribly mistaken are some of the efforts; selfishness (.logs and damages the ideals; but sooner oi latei all this can he rectified. Mankind is barely civilised as yet, we have much leeway to make up ; hut there is plenty of time. For the individual and also for the race there is a magnificent- prospect ahead; and if we set our faces firmly towards the right, and seek for the guidance which is certainly forthcoming. if we try to ascertain what is really the moaning of existence, and get our wills right with that effort which seems to us divine, then beyond these voices we shall attain to peace and to service which is perfect freedom. —Sir Oliver Lodge, in “ St. Martin s Review.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1928, Page 1
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195THE MEANING OF EXISTENCE. Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1928, Page 1
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