SOCIETY AND HAPPINESS
Sir,-One is left aghast at the cynicismn of some of the remarks made in the columns of The Listefier, Listen: "The delusion that society can make its members happy never occurs to him; nor the more profound delusion that men can exist meaningfully outside society." Somebody should tell James K. Baxter that the sole justification and end of society is the increment of association. Society exists because ten men together can do what ten men separately can not. Any society in which the increment of association does not redound to the advantage of its members will collapse. What Mr. Baxter means, what Ezra Pound would have said, is-the present monetary system is not working to the advantage of the common man, yet there is no escape from this system open to the common man.
F.W.N.
WRIGHT
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 5
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140SOCIETY AND HAPPINESS New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 5
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