A INDICTMENT OF WAR.
' “War is violent, it is distortionate, it is diseased ; the negation of all harmony and all balance. It is a periodic eruption in nations, similar, biologically, to what takes place in human beings who ‘do themselves’ too well and require a cure or at least a purge. If there is anything beautiful in that I have yet to> notice it,” writes M John Galsworthy, the well-known novelist, in the “Sunday Tim.es.” “There is no doubt a sort of granducr in being up against tilings to the extent of or beyond human capacity. War certainly provides plenty of opportunity for that. But so dees a famine, or a pestilencce, and we do not call them beautiful. Beauty, 1 suspect, is our dim perception of the harmony that underlies the movement of the spheres, our glimpses of the co-ordinating principal.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1928, Page 4
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142A INDICTMENT OF WAR. Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1928, Page 4
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