SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 25, 15 December 1939, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

T is my invincible belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war; that the nations will come to an understanding, not for destruction but for construction, and that the future will be to those who have done the most for suffering humanity.-Louis Pasteur. m % * LOVE. friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.-Anton Tchekhov. * * * HATRED is the coward’s revenge for being im timidated.-Bernard Shaw. bad Ba me IRTUE has always been conceived of as victorious resistance to ones vital desire to do this, that, or the other.-jJames Branch Cabell. By ts N Irishman in the House of Commons made a statement which called from an English opponent the cry "Treason!" The Irishman replied: I would have the honourable gentleman know that what is treason in England becomes reason in Ireland-be-cause of the absentee. — Described in " Public Opinion" as the perfect pun. * * * THAT all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.-Aldous ‘Huxley. * * * HE true critic must swim with the author, not stand on the bank and object to the river. The critic must play the game, whatever game the author chooses. His province is, first to see what was the intention of the author, and afterwards to say whether the author’s genius or instinct, or perhaps his intelligence, has chosen the right convention and the right method for his purpose.-Frank Kendon. * a * METHINKS I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks, Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.-WMéilton. us * * HOTOGRAPHY can be turned to account as a cure for seasickness. Take your camera with you. When things get dangerous, keep your eye on the view-finder, It works.-F. J. Mortimer, in a radio talk "I Photograph the Sea,"