Milk and Meat

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 36, 10 November 1911, Page 16

Milk and Meat

If Aye .could only stand on tiptoe long enough,' Aye should be able to count the stars.

A wrong done to a brother man is a wrong done to mc.

One of tlie shalloAA'est lies ever spoken is that "life is what we make it."

Wliile man remains a slave to his stomach, soul-life is impossible. * * *

Socialism, Avhich is accused of having merely * material ends in view, would do more for spirituality than any religion. ' '

The struggle for existence is unworthy of mankind. The most successful of the lower forms of life are those Avhich practice mutual aid.

No man is worthy the name who does not study and seek to improve the conditions in which he hVes.

Had spiritual and intellectual progress advanced in the same ration as material development, man AA'ould now be truly civilised.

Tlie worst 'and most soul-deadening evils are bred in the bones of mankind by the struggle for daily bread. „ ** * .

The multiplication of laAvs and lawyers is a sore evil under the sun. It proves that the Yankee philosopher was right Avhen he said: "Mankind is a damned rascal."

The woman's moA'ement will have a far-reaching effect on society in future. The institutions of the past, which enslave the present age, Avill be thrown into the melting-pot, and woman Avill assert her right to a voice in. the rebuilding of tlie social system. * * *

Words fitly spoken are like apples of gold in pictures of silver.—Solomon. * * *

The only hindrance to social and individual reform is the lack of will. Will to do a thing and you can do it.

* # # * That any human being should dare to apply to another the epithet "pauper" is! to mc, the greatest, the vilest, the most unpardonable crime that could be committed. —Richard Jeffries.

Outside our circle of ideas there are infinitely wider circles of ideas unknown to us.

Blind reverence for the past stultifies thought and action in fcne present. « * - *

The time and labor spent in piecemeal reform would suffice to create a ucav state of society Avhere all AA'ould be better than well.

# # * " Many things are Avonderful, but the most- Avonderful of all is man. £ * *

The curse of the Labor movement is that the "big little"■ men at the head of it are more concerned about their oav.ii careers than the cause of the toiling masses. '* * *

The cant about "cA-olutionary" Socialism is sickening. If you believe in evolutionary methods, do nothing at all. Evolution being a natural law, needs no help "from you. * * *

Not only is Bible-teaching_ in schools an outrage, but the training of the young in any religion is a Avrong done to the child. Religion ere long will be regarded as a purely personal possession, and the right of a man to form his oavii relations Avith God and the unseen Avorld will be freely conceded.

The soul is the mind of th& Tr-ind. It can build and construct and look beyond and penetrate space, and create. It is the keenest, the sharpest tool possessed by man. —Richard Jeffries.

Truth is simple and natural; error is compound and artificial.—A. J. Davis.

Most of tlie wisdom -and'knowledge of the present day is of no use to man. The competitive system renders it abortive. *

The slimy trail of capitalism is found over all the arts and graces of life. As if man had nothing better to do than fill his belly. . * * • *- .

No improA-ement in life is possible, while the majority of men belieA-e that none is necessary.

In nine cases out of ten, whatever is is wrong. It is our duty to help set it right.

To bathe the body is an act of religious devotion. Ablution by water is a. basic rite of all religions. To have a clean soul in a clean body is religion enough for any man or Avoman.