NATURE AND STATESMANSHIP.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1929, Page 7

NATURE AND STATESMANSHIP.

“Cutting deep into the problems of modern life,” said Professor Thomon, “are the lessons of Nature- —the ■ie.mo.sis of parasite ism, for it spells iegcneraey; the dangers of sluggish •xistence, when the environment is so • ut to master the organism; and the risks that are run whenever Nature’s lifting ceases, and is not replaced by ome higher form of selection, A socety that dispenses with sifting is working out its own 'doom. Otliei idlings equal,” he said, 1 one would always trust the judgment ol a coitutiy ,red statesman more than that of one wholly urban, for the mail who is at home in the country has the dee]) imnrossions' of growing and deuloping \]iicli cannot !)<• safely dispensed with by those who would legislate for human life. Especially in a necessarily

mechanical age is it folly to allow our children to grow up out ol touch witi living nature. This is not a qucstioi of educational opinion. It is mattei of life and death, it was said loiq ago that ‘Man does not live' by bread only’. There is a complimentary warn ing, ‘Organisms cannot be nurtured oi. mechanisms only.”—Professor J. Art lair Thomson.