Milk and Meat.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 41, 15 December 1911, Page 13

Milk and Meat.

Life is ■46; grimace,,but a most serious facW-Carlyle. Adulteration is an admitted evil, but tike all evils it produces a certain amount of good. The. paper used m ■ the making of books contains certain poisons which effectually ward oft bookwnims. Some books contain other poisons which are fatal to the mind, it abscrbed. The supernatural miscalled, the natural in truth, is the real To mc everything is supernatural. How strange that condition of mind winch cannot accept anything but the earth, the sea, the tangible universe! \\_itncut the misnamed supernatural these seem to mc incomplete, unfinished. Without soul all these are dead.— Richard Jefferies. I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened by the process of the suns. ', ■ ■ —Tennyson. Some people cling to their gentility as if it were the breath of lite. -Let, them go down in the social scale, and they have no desire to live. The race of 'snobs must have superiors to look up to, and "inferiors" to look down upon. A snob, male or female, is -the most despicable creature under the sun: to the snob, clothes axe more than character, and position more than brains. They cannot regard a manias separate "from his "position m life.. What we commonly call man, —the eating, drinking, planting, counting man,—does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do jnot respect; but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear.through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect it is genius; when it breathes through his will it is virtue; when it flows through his affection it is love. —Emerson. ■The' very temporariness and imperfection of all things here below argue a. life beyond the grave. Tho glorious fact of immortality, "however, should not make us content with, tins vale of tears, but rather stimulate us to make it a fit abode for undeveloped angels. There is no wealth, but the labo.- of man.—Shelley. War unites all that is most P*>rfiidioiis in its' manifestoes; all that infamous roguery has most degrading;, m tho equpiment and commissariat ot an army, and all that brigandage has most horrible to 'reveal in its pillage, violation, devastation, and destruction. The rights of peace, I know and acknowledge them. They consist in keeping one's word, and "allowing all men to enjoy the rights of nature. But as to the rights of war, I confess I do not know what they consist in. The code of murder appears to m© to be a strange form of imagination. I hope that soon we may be given the jurisprudence of highway robbers.—Voltaire. A society wliich allows poverty, a humanity which allows war, appears to mc to be an inferior society, an inferior humanity. I aspire to a- higher society and humanity; a society without kings, a humanity without frontiers. —Victor Hugo. "And here is another truth for them. The working classes will emancipate themselves from slavery when, convinced of 'their strength, they take the direction of their- affairs into their own hands without trusting any more to the favored classes." —Francisco Ferrer. The hollo wiiess of the modern democracy is easily seen by the thinking mind. Under a democracy _ the majority rules ; but to-day the majority is ruled, and has to obey. This is the' fault of ifce, majority which does not know its owii mind and strength. Life is a quarry out of which we have to hew a character.- —Goethe. Man, son of Heaven! is there not in thino inmost 'heart a spirit of active method, giving tliee no rest till thou unfold it. Complain not. Look up! wearied brother. See thy fellow workens surviving through eternity — Sacred Band of Immortals!—Carlyle. Replying to the Navy League, who put the 'following question to candidates for Parliament, "Do. you favor the introduction of legislation which should encourage the sea-training of the youth of the Dominion?" E. J. Howard, Socialist candidate for Christchurch South, wrote: "Not being a murderer at heart, and .not wishing to kill any child's father, either German, Jap, Chinese, or any other nationality, and also realising the tremendous strides Socialism is making, wliicli means 'Peace on earth,' ; I am against anyone els© being trained to kill." , _____ When, we have the will to do it, that very moment will justice be done. That very instant the tyrants of the earth shall bite the dust. —Peter Krnn&tkm.