APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1932, Page 4

APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS

There is amazingly litle evidence of “reverential care ‘for unoffending creation” in the arrangements of nature, that I can discover. If ouiears were sharp enought to hear all the cries of pain that are uttered in the earth by men and beasts, we should be deafened by one continuous scream! And yet the wealth of superfluous loveliness in the world condemns pessimism. It is a hopeless riddle. * * * * A man who has only half has much food as lie needs is inbubitably starved, even though his short rations consist of ortolans and are served upon gold plate. * * * * Economy does not lie in sparing money but spending it wisely. •X- # * * Wo men of science, at any rate, hold ourselves morally bound to "try all tilings and bold fast to that which is good” ; and among public Umlactors, we reckon him who explodes old error, as next in rank to him who discovers m.w truth. -X- -L- -X- * Whatever Linnaeus may say, man is not a rational animal —('specially in his parental capacity.