MECHANISED MINDS
SURRENDER OF PERSONAL WORTH.
Today the really terrifying fact in the world, worse than the horrors of war, is a universal dumb acceptance of conditions which mean the surrender of all personal worth and dignity, writes Mr H. A. Tomlinson in the “Daily Herald.” In some countries there is hearty approval of the degradation of the person to a standard pattern of thought. Personal initiative and aspiration, the free use of the mind, are reckoned as treason. At last it has come to it. Mind is inferior to the machine; is controlled by it. The mindless wheels are the master, and man the inventor of them their dumb drudge, presently to go under them. Civilisation came of the free ranging of the mind. It spread from a point of directing light in brute creation, a light now threatened , with extinction. The only justification for man’s dominance on this planet is going; and man will go with it, as have other animals which, failed to be superior to circumstance.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 2
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170MECHANISED MINDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 2
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