SOCIAL PROGRESS
CO-OPERATION OR COMPETITION
Lord Cecil of Chelwood, in a recent speech, said he. thought there had been a great movement during the last generation for the substitution of co-operation for competition as an instrument of social progress. Alhough the tendency toward co-opera-tion was on the whole a good thing, let them not ignore certain dangers which it involved. The more they substituted co-operative effort for individual effort, the more risk there was of the weakening of individuality, that was to say, they risked the loss of initiative and enterprise in the individual, it was fi real danger, although he was not at all pessimistic on the subject. Human responsibility wag tile greatest tiling in the world, and in politics it was absolutely essential to the proper working of any democratic. any popular institution. There was no department of politics in which it was niflVa essential that the citizens of a country should think for themselves than in foreign affairs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 7
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161SOCIAL PROGRESS Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 7
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