UNIFORMITY
MASS PRODUCTION OF MINDS. When John Gay wrote that, “Variety's the source of joy below, from whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,” he was expressing a thought, that was as old as man him-1 self and probably as lasting: yet on this I score, as on many others, the world of i today affords us grounds for some mis-1 giving, says the London “Listener.” j Mass production in goods wo are ac-. customcd to: mass production in minds I is, to put it mildly, not so good. To-; day whole nations are being subjected | to the propaganda of uniformity; in the j name of strange gods people are being told to sink their differences, to speak alike, and even —save the mark —to think alike. Fortunately the human .mind cannot be so bound for very long; constriction of; this kind produces reaction, and at whatever cost man ' will always struggle to be free. ' '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 5
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153UNIFORMITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 5
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