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TOTALITARIAN IDEAL

QUASHING THE INDIVIDUAL: The ■ totalitarian attempt to disregard the individual except in so far as he serves the accepted political ends of the State robs history of its really creative element. Moreover, it totally inhibits that free and creative 4 play of. the'individual self which its eternal destiny demands, writes .Dr A. P. Shepherd in his book “The Eternity of Time.” It is because the instinct to find eternal significance in life reacts against this ruthless dragooning of the human spirit that totalitarianism finds in religion its chief enemy. Totalitarianism in its contempt for the spiritual value of the individual is the. political expression of the successional and materialistic conception of reality. But the real greatness of a national depends upon the increasing and ever-widening richness of . the content of experience of its individual citizens.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 5

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TOTALITARIAN IDEAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 5

TOTALITARIAN IDEAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 5

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