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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1928, Page 1

AVlmt’s this PLYMOUTH ? What’s Ibis PLYAIOUTH ?

THE SPREADING OF THE AVERAGE. “ Nothing strikes me so much as the absence now, compared with forty or fifty years ago, of great personalities outstanding above their fellows. have a high level of public service and public work, but have we got anything at all corresponding to the outstanding personalities that dominated Europe or England at that time? Something has happened 'which has changed conditions, and although we may have a very high level of merit and activity we don’t seem to have—l don’t think there is any question about it—the outstanding figures there were in the days I can first remember. I don’t know whether that is good or not. I should think it is a misfortune. It may be that everybody has been raised higher, and, therefore, the peak does net loom so large as it did in oldei days. Does it' mean that the quick, competent, universal circulation of knowledge has grown to such a scale that it makes it practically impossible for men to emerge because there is not the leisure or opportunity of doing it that there was in the old days?” The Archbishop of Canterbury.

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