TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Right Will Prevail. “ Mncliiavelli, with all liis acuteness of observation, had a sineular faculty for failing to see factors of the first importance. Loudly as he professed to see things as they really were, he saw them as they really were not. Just as he depicted an art of war in which artillery played no part, so he depicted an art of government in which neither morals nor religion had any place. His estit c £ human nature, on which his whole political system was based was radically mistaken. He regarded man as entirely had, and founded his system on that false assumption. He ignored goodness in man just as he ignored gunpowder in war. In that art of politics the conscience of mankind has repudiated the Machiavellian maxims, and the experience of the human race has demonstrated their folly. The records of history tend to show that Socrates and Plato were right when they said that in the long run the knave and the fool are one and the same. For human society is established on moral foundations, and righteousness must ip the, mud prevail.”— , sor_jr, J. C. Hearnskaw. LIJI)...*'
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 6
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194TOPICS OF THE DAY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 6
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