FALLACY OF TO-DAY
IS LOCALISM A BIG MENACE? NEW BASIS IS NEEDED':; ’ CHRISTCHURCH, ...September., 26: Whether education can save civilisation was discussed by Professor J. Shelley in an address' last gygning .to members 9/ an Open-Air Sdhools Movement. ", ,'" ! ; Civilisation, he said, had passed from the ancient nomadic characteristics to the present.stage,'settled in things.local The. localism seemed to result, in nationalism; but, when, it ,-yyas exaniip§d,, localism was found to be a, fallacy, today.. All the standards of the agricultural. civilisation were goneof the earth were linked and organised and Mo part was. sufficient unto itself. The world was in a, stage of transition, and civilisation could not last unless some basis other, than . ths present so-called scientific one. were, fomid. “llie. nation,” said Professor Shelley, “is the supreme expression of (he individual in groups.” The future cf,.a civilisation was not decided, by, the dictates of controlling bodies pr ,iiiternati6na.l. conferences, but by the trend of indiyifl.ua! thinking. r ,. : -
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1932, Page 3
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