THE DEGENERACY OF THE TIMES.
ACCOHDING to Mrs. Bcsant all our pro. gression is retrogression, and our art vitality, all our democracy, empty •' and in fcho last statement there is undoubtedly a great deal of truth. The achievements of mechanical science in increasingly improved machinery has made the one-timed skilled artisan little better than a human shaft and pulley . andwhilo all the inventions of the contury are due to the working classes, tho cltectof all invention has been to make an aristocracy of tho inventors and their parasites-giving to a fow inordinate wealth, and dooming tho many to inordinate poverty. And yet, cvon in the face of these admissions, it is yew foolish not to believe that the present is the best age the world has ever bewnvi. The poles of poverty and plutocracy willtt be merged when the working classes amP* sufiiciently educated to bo fhlS form of government an cn i; g ß democracy, and in Australia to d J education is/rce, and the artisan every improving tUmgat his command If invon \on made of the JEST.' tin lattojneyer dreamt of—if civil 7 J*k .produced new diseases %Z «curatives for most of ie m in WmersSiFßEemedi es ..WesCy
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4935, 26 January 1895, Page 2
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200THE DEGENERACY OF THE TIMES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4935, 26 January 1895, Page 2
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