"COMMON MEN"
Sir-In reply to the letter of "bed Ridden," I doubt if the term "common man" describes the crowd. A common man is one who has the common attributes of humanity-not _ stupidity, cruelty, greed or lust, because some of the best humans are entirely lacking in all four, but what to save argument could be called the Divine Spark (each can let that term serve what he will). I see three divisions of common man -the common man inarticulate (this not necessarily dependent on education or position); the common man made articulate, this is the great man. And between these two divisions, causing an intercourse between the two, are the interpreters. Unfortunately for mankind there is a break away from the interpretersthe politicians. By politicians I mean those who use their fellow-beings for gain, power, or even ideals. (It’s not the aim that is the sin but the using of their fellow-men.) The influence of the politicians. produces a division among the inarticulate, of those who become partially articulate by the loss of their human integrity, the gulled. I think "Bed Ridden" will agree that it is by and for these two uncommon divisions of men that in the main, nanere and iournals are run.
A
STAMMERER
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 402, 7 March 1947, Page 18
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