SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION.
Sir,-Professor C. E. M. Joad’s reflection (Listener, February 27) is one of those half truths which too easily pass. It is doubtful if before industrialism people toiled either so steadily or so arduously. Certainly people imposing themselves on primitive peoples have to take action to get them to work. One way is tp compel payment of taxes in money, another to educate them to want "civilised" clothes, . food and other things. Running to a schedule or clock-punching is so irrational that it falls into disuse. Civilisations disappear. Half truths are mischievous: Marx’s "surplus value", Henry George’s "single tax", Wells’s "super-man", "planned control", "orderly marketing", the "intelligence of the intelligentsia", and the ‘self-contained country" idea which has been an important factor in promoting this war.
SAXON
(Auckland).
ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT 3 Z.J.L.-Referred for consideration to Station Manager.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 4
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139SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION. New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 4
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