The form in which Mr Archibald Hurd quotes a story to show that genuine conscientious objection has its limits illustrates the tendency to annex even a story to one’s own sphere of special interest. It also indicates fading familiarity with a classic work. In Mi Hurd's version it is “on board a British vessel in time of war” that a Quaker who had refused to take any part in a fight, at the last moment throws one of the boarding enemy into the sea, remarking, “Friend, thou hast no business horc.” A generation or two ago everybody would have recognised the incident as coming from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ whore it is over a cliff that the Quaker pushes his unwanted “friend.’’ One mile of steel rail averages 130 tons of metal and Wo tons of iron.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 2
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136Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 2
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