THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
CECIL RHODES. In promising the “Memory of the Founder,” Mr Amery said the , last • thing that Mr wished to do in founding his scholarships was to tempt the able and adventurous minds of (the , younger nations across the seas to come here in order to assimilate externally or internally the ways of this old country. What Mr Rhodes \ did wish was that the shaping of the fu- rt ture of the new countries should be, in- j spired by some years of contact with the past. No man ever had the spiritual roots of his being more rooted in the past than Mr Rhodes, not, only in the past of his country, but of v Greece and Rome. Yet no man live*! so entirely in the future or was so essentially a man who took the forward view. ■ .
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1929, Page 4
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142THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1929, Page 4
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