JOHN BULL DISSECTED. ‘'The British character does not lend itself to sailing near the wind. Our people may go in the teeth of a storm, hut they- make a muddle * of trimming their sails; not when they are upon the sea, but in politics and religion. There is a general suspicion about' the leaders who are accomplished diplomats. Is it something wrong with John Bui! that he does not understand line shades of difference in words? He does not take the trouble. A thing is either this or that. It is Conservative or Labour, black or white. In religion it is orthodoxy or heterodoxy, true or false. It is no use trying to explain that truth is not divided into alternatives. The philosophy of this or that long ago gave place to the more subtle teaching of this and that. Black and white are alternatives, 'but they are linked together by innumerable grades so that white changes into "black, and black goes into white. But not so in the mind of the average man; he will have none of it. Ho loves the down-right thoroughgoing. A middle course does not appeal to him; he is on one side or the other.”—Dr. J. C. Cai’lishj/in the “Baptist Times.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1929, Page 2
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