FIGHTING WITHOUT FAITH.
Sir-Your leader on "Fighting without Faith" didn’t seem to me to have your usual clear-sight-edness. You say it is the material struggle itself that counts most at the present moment. Nonsense! Of what use will that victory be if we have not also gained the victory over ourselves? Even to think of anything else is folly (you say) unless we are all the time thinking first of victory and fighting for it. I would rather hear you say. that it is folly to think of material victory unless we are all the time striving for that other moral victory. Do you expect us to say, when victory is won, " Well, that bloody job is done. Now let’s discipline ourselves and overcome éur slackness, selfishness, laziness, etc." But we humans aren’t like that, Don't you know that the majority of us have to be booted (or bombed) along the road to progress? If we slacken in the moral struggle then the boot and the bomb-overtake us. Do you agree? Then what's the remedy? Moralists, my dear Ed. are never untimely. Think again.
TIMELY MORALIST
(Geraldine).
(If our correspondent is asking which comes first, the hen or the egg, we refuse to answer. If she is suggesting that moralists can win battles without guns, or that morality alone will give us guns, we must ask her if she has read the recent story of Crete.-Ed.) :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 4
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