APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
In tile strict sense of the word ‘‘nature”, it denotes the sum of the phenomenal world, of that which has been, and is, and will be; and society, like art is therefore a part of nature. But it is convenient- to distinguish those purls of nature in which man plays the part of immediate cause, as something apart; and therefore, society, like art. is usefully to be considered as distinct from nature. It is the more desirable, and . even necessary to make tins distinction, since society differs from nature in having a definite moral object; whence it comes about that the course shaped by the ethical man—the member .of society or citizen—necessarily runs counter to that which the noilethical man—the primitive savage, or man as a mere member of the animal kingdom—tends to adopt. The latter tights out the struggle for existence to the hitter end, like any other animal ; the former devotes his best energies to the object of setting limits to the struggle.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1932, Page 1
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