O, TO BE IN ENGLAND!
Sir-I read with interest Ronald L. Meek’s "Confession of a Brain About to Export Itself" (Listener March 4). I am glad this young man is at last going to take up his scholarship at Cambridgehe would feel forever frustrated if he did not do so. He is bound to benefit by the experience; but since he has that wholesome quality so badly needed by our intellectuals-willingness to do a good job without worrying about money or fame-lI sincerely hope he will return, for New Zealand has need of competent, disinterested economists. On his journey over there Mr. Meek will have time for meditation. One has it on very good authority that three simple truths are food for the hungry. May I, in wishing Mr. Meek "Bon voyage" draw his attention to them(1) "The soul of man is immortal; and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendour has no limit." (2) "The principle which gives life dwells in us, .... perceived by the man who desires perception." (3) "Each man is his own, absolute law-giver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punish-
ment." —
LIBERTA
(Hastings)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 16
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203O, TO BE IN ENGLAND! New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 16
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