THE HUMAN RACE.
ONLY IN ITS INFANCY. REMARKABLE SPEECH BY SIR OLIVER LODGE. f London, March 30. Sir Oliver Lodge kept an audience of University men representative of all England almost spellboundat Oxford by the declaration that the hum'an race was only in its infancy, and not yet properly civilised. We knew barely anything. “The fact is we are just beginning to scrape the ground in an endeavour to advance, and we are making many mistakes. Those who are depressed by the immediate outlook should realise that it is natural that race in its infancy would behave badly, starting wars and trying to destroy each qther.” He urged the cultivation of a spirit of International amity and quoted from a schoolboy’s essay on the w'ar: “In modern time war is not to see the enemy, but to fire off rifles all day long and sometimes get hit. Then, in the evening, you buy a, newspaper to find out who has been beaten.” Dropping bombs on everybody, with submarines crawling about sinking boats, were no occupations for gentlemen, said Sir Oliver.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3775, 3 April 1928, Page 3
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180THE HUMAN RACE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3775, 3 April 1928, Page 3
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