FROM WAR TO- WHAT?

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1928, Page 1

FROM WAR TO- WHAT?

I M .111 » ' ' . *• Jt is a common],lace among people who think as ive do that in order to preclude the possibility of war in future we must find some means of diverting into other channels the energies which at present make for war. 1 think we have got to realise, as advanced representatives of the human race, as people who are forerunners of the future, that the line that human activity is going increasingly to take in the future is that of thinking, of being aware of objects of thought and not of knowing bits of matter at all. We sometimes talk of sublimating human passions, of taking the impulse of pugnacity, or instance, which makes for war. and utilising it in the gymnasium or on the playing held. Hut unless we can offer to human energy some hotter channel tor its exerei.se than glorified sport, we shall never get. rid of war. Wlmt we have to do is to educate people to like thinking, that is. being aware of objects ol thought and not of tbits of matter, lor its own sake, and to take art, literature, music, etc., seriously, if they are to employ their surplus energy.’’—Mr 0. K. M. .load.