DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL
DUMB DANGER (Copyright, 1927.) J HAVE said that Business that is dumb is dangerous. 1 will go further. It is dangerous because it is dumb. When there is power it must exert itself in some way. In man the normal way is through art—letters, painting, sculpture, music. That is why art is the great civiliser. It furnishes an outlet for human energy, and such an outlet, such a mode of expression, as conserves, develops, idealises, and improves the quality of that energy. Without art, energy manifests itself destructively, or at least coarsely. The profane person uses oaths because he cannot express his feelings in proper words. If he knew the art of speech, he wouldn’t swear. What a man can utter in a word a dumb animal can utter only by biting, howling, butting, rending. All power that is dumb is dangerous. If you want me to feel friendly toward you, you must talk to me. The more power a man or an organisation of men has, the more it needs advertising as a matter of self-preservation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 16
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182DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 16
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