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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1928, Page 4

THE PASSING OF DOGMA. “We must be content with partial knowledge, ready to admit that, in regard to many matters of the highest importance, we must balance opposing ideas and reach probability rather than certainty. An element of agnosticism, a willingness to say 1 1 don’t know,' is necessary in the attitude of every honest thinker. But we have no right to use scepticism as a support of superstition. To decry the value of Iranian reason in order that one may continue to hold beliefs that will not stand the test of rational inquiry is discreditable. Similarly, wo have no right to take refuge in the obscurantism which, because our knowledge of nature is progressive, alleges that ‘ the scientific theories of one generation are repudiated by the next. ... 1 confess 1 can form no satisfactory understanding of the process which has led to the creation of matter as we now know it save on the assumption that some Cosmic Artificer has been at work.”—Bishop Barnes.

LEADING THE WOKKEIiS. “ The education of the workers is a supremely important matter to which employers are not giving anything like the attention they should give. Employers have been inclined, in the past, to regard the rank and file of the workers very much as instruments of production, as they would regard a machine,” writes Mr B. Seebohm Kowntree in “ Industrial Welfare.” They have never realised sufficiently bow intensely sensitive even tne crudest and roughest worker is—how susceptible he is to impulses of one kind and another, to sympathy, to misunderstanding, to a sense of honest dealing, and how willing S 9 men out of 100 are to play square if given a square deal, and if the facts' of a situation are explained to them. We have done nothing like enough to educate the workers in the economies of industry. Wo expect them to have esprit do corps, to lie loyal to the firm, and to understand the difficulties of keen competition and so forth, hut have wo ever explained to them anything about the economies of their own industry instead of leaving them to gain their knowledge of economies from the man who stands on a soap-box at the street corner? The day when you could drive the workers has passed, hut the art ol leading the workers has still to he learned by many of us.”