THE PASSING OF THE BLACK FLAG.
“Tho l.lack flag is not hoisted when *i criminal dies to-day, and people in future time will cease to gloat over the Mark llag hoisted in their journals, says .Mr. Kden Phillpotts—and. one might add. their literature generally; ilr" I,la-:-k llag that is associated with the poisoning of the soul as well as tho murder ol the body,” so comments the ‘•Yorkshire Post.” “How much more csi iinutile is Montaigne’s vision of a Mull man’ than are the authors who have enlisted under the black flag, refusing to see life whole, relusing to admit that Hie evil of it is the shadow idol ting only a part of the earth’s surface. ‘He who sets before him, as in ii picture, this vast image of our Mother \uLure in her entire majesty; who reads in her aspect such universal and continental variety; who discerns h nisei! therein, and not himself only, hut a whole, kingdom, to lie hut a most delicate dot- lie alone esteems things according to the just, measure of their great ness.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1928, Page 7
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180THE PASSING OF THE BLACK FLAG. Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1928, Page 7
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