APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
Even the best of modern civilisations appears to be to exhibit a condition of mankind which neither embodies ar.y worthy ideal nor even possesses the merit of stability. I do not hesitate to express my opinion that, if there is no hope of a large -movement of the condition of the greater part of the human family; if it is true that the increase of knowledge, the winning of a greater dominion over Nature which is its consequence, and the wealth whigh follows upon that dominion are to make no difference fm the extent and intensity of Want, with its concomitant physical and moral degradation, among the masses of the people. I should hail the advent of some kindly comet, which would sweep the whole affair away, as a desirable consummation. What profits it to the human Promtheus that he has stolen the tire of heaven to be his servant, and that the spirits of the earth and of the air obey him, if thevulture of pauperism is eternally to tear his very vitals and keep him om the brink of destruction?
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1932, Page 4
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185APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1932, Page 4
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