Communiformity
By
WHIM-WHAM.
[. .. There was too much uniformity in New Zealand and Australian life _ . , J eProfessor Allan Nevins, Columbia University.] W= tend to Uniformity? Quite so, and No one! will deny That our Opinion of Ourselves Ils uniformly pretty high. Our Countryside and Climate range From Glacier to sub-tropic Green, But on the human Landscape here Few Peaks and little Growth are seen. Ys Abed to grow like All the Rest, * The Child is swallowed in the Class, We educate our ‘‘Masses’’--true. We also «ducate en Masse. Conformity is Character," As Some discover to their Sorrow. Upon the Playgrdunds of To-day Are run the Nationals of To-morrow, FO Fear that any Creed or View Should be imposed on Anyone, We take the Safest Course, which ends In holding or advancing None, And hence a national Culture grows, In Keeping with our Aspirations; All Men shall equal be, for All Must pass the same Examinations, ys Accidents will happen in The best conducted of Dominions. A few have Talents; Some, Beliefs; ._And Some attain their own Opi And if the Whale of Genius One Day upon our Coasts is stranded. We’ll shout for All the World to hear. "See the big Fish that we have landed!" :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 239, 21 January 1944, Page 2
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205Communiformity New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 239, 21 January 1944, Page 2
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