APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
Belief in the majorities is not rooted in my breast, and if all the world were against me the fact might warn me to revise and criticise my opinions, but would not in itself supply a ghost of a ‘reason for forsaking them. For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those tb ; whom the world lias turned, alnl will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at. * * * * As to whether we can fulfil the moral law, I should gay hardly any of usSome of us are utterly incapable of fulfilling its plainest dictates. As there are men born physically cr pples, and intellectually idiots, so there are some who are moral cripples, and idiots, and can be kept straight non even by punishment. For these people there is nothing but shutting up, or extirpation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1932, Page 4
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169APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1932, Page 4
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