APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
Material advamoment ha s its share in moral and intellectual progress. Reeky Sharp’s acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year, lias its application to nations; and it i s futile to expecta hungry and squalid population to ho anything but violent and gross. -X- -Jf ■¥: -XTf the twentith •century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be b. cause there aie among us men who walk in Priestley’ s footsteps. But wether Priestley’s lor. be theirs, and a future generation, in justice and in gratitude, set up their statues; or wether their names and fame are blotted out from remembrance, their work wi.l live as long as time endures. To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased bv their means ; to all etomitv, false and injustice "'ill be the weaker because they .have liv d. j
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1931, Page 1
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154APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1931, Page 1
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