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“What strikes me with tire English is their se"Be of nature, the instinctive consciousness of the law of nature. Of all the civilised people I suppose it is the English who are really closest to the understanding of living nature,” said- Professor Andre Siegfried, in a s; eeoh rep -rted in the “Oxford Times.” “You know the- rythm of time, a.ndl in your ways of thinking and feeling you always are, or'try to bo, in sympathy with nature. You are born observers of everything natural, and especially born observers in human psychology, in what is essentially natuic. There are no greater psychological people than the English. You have a sort of devotion to natur'v in its most simple f r rni, and by this we are ext'.arily touched. ' But you have carried this further to the study of the Twins of politics. With the English in politics you always soo er or later, c' mo back to reality. The English have always been the greatest educators in
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1931, Page 8
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169THE ENGLISH, Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1931, Page 8
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