DEAN INGE

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1933, Page 3

DEAN INGE

VIEWS OF COMING YEi/ijRS

OF GRIM TIME AHEAD

‘LONDON, November 23

Dean Inge, in a sermon last Sunday, referred to the sacrifices which the British people of to-day must make for the coming generation.

The dean, stated;—“A grim time Res ahead of us, which will test our national character perhaps even more ■ severely than the war itself. In every field it is difficult to predict what the future will bring forth. The next 30 years must be .a time for recuperation. We must keep our eyes not so much on the immediate future as on the. generation which, will inhabit 'England when we Jane gone. For them we must make sacrifices. To take one example, we must work out a reform of education which will place the choicest- treasures of ouri ancient glorious Civilisation within the reach of all who can appreciate them. .

“Even the richer class must realise for their own sakes that if they are to exist at all it can only be by continuing those habitg of self-denial which most of them learned to practise bravely and cheerfully during the war. They will have to choose between simplifying their mode of life or withdrawing altogether. Aristrocrades that fall upon evil days generally die out. II .earnestly hope that our upper and professional cl ass eg will cho s e the better way.

“When one visit s a public school or university and looks at the boys—perhaps the finest specimens of the human .race that can be found anywhere—one feels what a loss to the country, and the world, it would ha if their class ■were to disappear. But the danger exists, as all know who have studied vital statistics, and the causes of it will go up.

“The only remedy for lit is to adopt, voluntarily, a standard of living suitable' to the cbanged conditions under which our children will have to live. There are a few who are still really rich. I think it is their bou.nden duty not to set a standard of expenditure' which is impossible for their clas.s ns‘ a whole. They ought not to make things difficult for the majority.”