PRESENT DISCONTENTS
(WIT! malaise is due mainly to the barely conscious feeling that the deepest needs are not being satisfied: we arc both unarmed and underfed. The world crisis is essentially a crisis in the history of religion, writes Professor Stanley took, of Cambridge University, in the Manchester Guardian. Man, as we sometimes see, has not wholly severed himself from Nature and the brute, and the sub-human ruthlessness of Nature shows itself when, through the decay of inherited pattern? of life and thought, man is in danger of forgetting or losing all that has made the difference between himself and his animal km. To-day's task is to reaffirm and restate man’s humanity and his place in the universe, in the light of both science and religion, and these cannot be kept apart, since the great epochs of world history have a more than serial or political significance.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 6
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147PRESENT DISCONTENTS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 6
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