ASCENT OF MAN
NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE. The groaning and travailing of the universe is never aimless or resultless, writes General Smuts in his philosophic work, "Holism.'' It is the nature of the universe to strive for and slowly but in ever-increasing measure, to attain wholeness, fullness, blessedness. The real defeat, for men as for other grades of the universe would be to ease the pain by a cessation of effort, to cease from striving toward (he Good. The "holistic nisus" which rises like a living fountain from the very depths of the universe is the guarantee that failure does not await us. that the ideals of Well-being, of Truth. Beauty and Goodness, are firmly grounded'in the nature of things, and will not eventually be endangered or lost. Wholeness, healing, holiness —all expressions and ideas springing from the same root in language as in experience—lie on the rugged upward path of the universe, and are secure of attainment—in part, here and now. and eventually more fully and truly.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1940, Page 6
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