GOD IN NATURE
Sir,-Mr. Cooney says that he does not find anything revealing or inspiring in the cruelties of Nature. Neither do I. But I do find something revealing and inspiring in the ethereal loveliness of a lily, and in the splendid mystery of its growth. It seems relevant to say that man, although endowed, unlike nature, with conscience and powers of reflection, often thoughtlessly inflicts racking tortures in the name of sport. Mr, Cooney speaks of a humanity tortured by disease and pain. But man must also face this charge. This is a good world to live in -that is, if man is content with moderation in all things. But no, his passion is for excesses of all kinds-excesses that are a perennial source of a vast volume of human suffering and degradation. It is time, I think, that man blamed himself a great deal more, and God and Nature a great deal less, for the hell that has been made of thie fair world.
J. E.
HAMILL
(Rotorua). |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 173, 16 October 1942, Page 3
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170GOD IN NATURE New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 173, 16 October 1942, Page 3
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