WANTED—A NEW PHILOSOPHY. " A now philosophy, it is suggested, is necessary to a now world.” says Professor Atkinson Lee. “It is not yet clear whether the present obscurity is the dawn of a fairer civilisation or the dusk ho fore a new ago of darkness. Hut in any case the collapse of the competitive individualistic philosophy of the 19th century, during the Oreat War, makes both necessary and possible a better philosophy of society to-day. It thus seems feasible to gather together some of the researches of the last quarter of a century, and to present them as the groundwork of a new social construction. The present essay is a contribution to that end. . . Truth seeking is discursive, it moves restlessly from point to point : duty-going is dynamical, it pursues an end beyond the present. The enjoyment of beauty is immanental : though active enough, it is activity in repose. Even the production of beauty, though the very type of freativopess, is self-satisfying,
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1928, Page 2
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162Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1928, Page 2
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