Dr. William Temple
HE most memorable feature of the recent posthumous address by the late Archbishop of Canterbury was the impression received of the personality behind it. Dr. Temple lacked any faint echo of what is known, with not quite unjustified generalisation, as the "pulpit voice"; he spoke with a vigour and control which made manifest a complete man who had fully entered into and comprehended the beliefs he was propounding until they had become part of his life. With Roosevelt, Masaryk, and Smuts, William Temple was a type that our . civilisation is producing in its present stage of development; those in whom the classical tradition of liberty, justice, and self-government is almost incarnate, so that we speak less of the beliefs they hold than of the principles that animate them, of which they are composed; who have developed these principles and this tradition to the point where their further existence requires great changes, and can voice these requirements with the authority of history itself,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 8
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165Dr. William Temple New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 8
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