Thanks to Literature
ANY good and wise and witty things were said at the International Congress of the P.E.N. Club last year by famous writers. Here is one of them by Desmond McCarthy: "The whole object of all writing is to bring man’s heart into harmony with his environment. Science, statecraft, economics, are trying to do that by changing man’s environment. It is the function of literature and writers, especially I think, of imaginative writers, to interpret and discipline the desires of the heart so that they come into harmony with life. The efforts of science, or statecraft, or economics, are fruitless unless men are taught what they really do desire and what is good that they should desire, It is thanks to literature that men see the world as the interesting place it is; if you do not wonder at what is wonderful it ceases to be a wonder."-("On Reading,’ Madeline Alston, 2YA, April 20.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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156Thanks to Literature New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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