“ANOTHER CONUNDRUM"
(To the Editor) Sir, —I would not mind entering into a controversy with Mr T. Harris, but I am most decidedly not going to enter into a conundrum-solving competition. In his first letter he presented us with a conundrum which I said was apparently insoluble; it must be wholly insoluble, for in his second letter (September 17) he makes no attempt at giving us a solution. Instead he gives us another in the following sentence: “Motion is constant in all things, but varied aspects of motion are numerous; therefore, limitation of space excludes anything but a particular aspect of the subject.” A whole shipload of Philadelphia lawyers could not make head or tail of that farrago.
One wonders whether one should say of Mr Harris what Disraeli said of Gladstone, that he is intoxicated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, or whether one should say that he is so enveloped and involved in the obscure transcendentalism and fuliginous nebulosity of the Hegelian philosophy as to have become incomprehensible. One thing only is certain: he has very peculiar ideas about the conduct of a controversy.—l am, etc., A. WARBURTON. Ngaruawahia, September 2L
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21226, 24 September 1940, Page 7
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194“ANOTHER CONUNDRUM" Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21226, 24 September 1940, Page 7
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