DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 175, 14 October 1927, Page 14

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

DISCOVERIES

(Copyright , 1927) A NEW star was discovered the other day. It had been there all the time, just waiting for a telescope big enough A new element was found in the laboratory of a large university. It had been mixed up in the earth’s compound from the beginning and only awaited instruments sensitive enough to record its presence. Now, if we are honest, we admit that these discoveries are important, but that they mean little to us. They are interesting, but they don’t touch us. Our lives go on just the same. Neither ourselves nor our grandchildren will be greatly affected by the distant star or the elusive element. The real discoveries--the discoveries that matter —that those that are made in that little world ot activity which we call ourselves. They are the times when suddeny we “wake up,” are “converted, our eyes are opened, and we add something to our lives. Their are such times as when we suddenly see for ourselves the greatness of a classic piece of literature, a statue, a painting, or a piece of music. We may have looked at them many times before and never have seen their full beauty, or have listened to them innumerable times without appreciating their deep meaning. And then —Presto: Their greatness breaks upon us in a sudden discovery. It matters not how long they have been in existence. For us they are USt Lik'e'the star and the element, they have been there all the time. It is we who have developed to the place where we are able to grasp their presence. Such a day is an important one. „ “Commonplace people do not see the greatest gifts of others, and when you find yourself falling in love with something of classic greatness you have the assurance of having grown yourself. The world’s progress is marked by the discovery of stars and elements; your own by the discovery of greatness in the great.