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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1929, Page 7

criticism. “Criticism is discriminating judgment, careful appraisal, and judgment is appropriately termed 'criticism wherever the subject matter of discrimination concerns goods or values Possession and enjoyment 'of goods passes insensibly and inevitably into ippraisal. First and immature experience is content simply to enjoy Criticism is not a matter off formal treaties, published articles, or taking up important matters for consideration in a serious way. It occurs wherever a-movement is devoted to looking to see what sort of value is present; when ever instead of accepting a value object wholeheartedly, being rapt by it, we raise even a shadow of a question about its worth, or modify our sense of it by even a passing estimate of its probable future. It is well upon the world that we use the terms ‘appreciation’ and ‘criticism’ honorific-* ally to designate conspicuous instances. Hut it is fatal to any understanding of them to fail to note that (formally emphatic instances are of exactly the same nature as the rhythmic alternation between slight agreeable acceptances, annoyed rejections and passing questionings and estimates wh’cli make up the entire course of our waking experience, whether in reverie in controlled inquiry or in deliberate management of affairs.” —Mr John Dewev, in his b> »!., “Experience and Nature.”