HEALTH AND THE SOIL
sir,-ihe Listener is to be congratulated on re-publishing Sir Stanton | Hicks’s views on soil and health, and on devoting a leading article to the question. But when you say that "the soil is a new religion" you impel me to point out that the idea of fertility is contained, explicity or implicitly, in every religion in history. It is only the pseudo-religions (such as departmentalised "science") that try to dispense with it. I find it reassuring that, amidst so much unreality and chaos, and in a country where Easter is celebrated in the autumn with race-meetings, the ‘minds of the people should be turning to this question of, soil fertility. As for Sir Theodore Rigg, I have no doubt that his motives are disinterested, and that the Cawthron Institute is doing some very useful work. But I feel that, in their present context, its labours: are akin to those of Sisyphus. If we rely on such activities to preserve for us the basis of physical life, rather than pursuing the positive principle of fertility that has informed the classical systems of.agriculture, we shall be putting to sea in a colander.
A. R. D.
FAIRBURN
(Devonport).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 5
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199HEALTH AND THE SOIL New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 5
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