Some Philosophy.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 17 January 1918, Page 4

Some Philosophy.

All things arc equal; there is no one thing more sacred than another. Men measure the sacredness of things ac cording to their money values but ttie great Creator recognises no cash values. God never created a saint; men nave only canonised the memory of extremely good men, and called them saints. No man can make himself more sacred than his neighbour. He is still flesh and blood and bones and skin, and as like to contract smallpox and ye|l° w fever, and summer complaint, and dyspepsia, and grip, as the humblest an most poverty-stricken man on eartn. Some argue that man is more sacred than any other animal or insect on earth because he has power and dominion over all the other species of living creatures. They classify animal lite according to ability to kill ea , other species. The -norm is thejowest species of life, so they argue, because it is the common food of all sorts of birds and insects. Then the stronger species of birds and animals feast on the birc that eat the worm, and still stronger birds- and animals in turn devour the victors over the first and sccond victims, and it ends in man selecting the finest and juciest of all lor his otto food. He has dominion over them all from the worm and the grub < dbJ to the ox and his twin brother, the voter If the conquest ended here, man would really appear to be th ° m °* sacred; Tout it doesn't. -^ ftcr .? conquered and subdued the wide : of animal life, he in turn lies dx>wn to i let the despised worms and grubs teea on his clccaying body, and the circle o common brotherhood and equality" in nature 3s completed.