THE ASCENT OF MAN.
The groaning and travailing of the universe is never t aimless or resultless, writes General Smuts in his philosophic work, “Holism.” It is the nature of the universe to strive for and slowly but in over-increasing measure, to attain wholeness, fullness, blessedness. The real defeat (for men as for other grades of the universe would bo to ease the pain bv a cessation of effort, to cease from striving toward the Good. The “holistic, nisus” which rises like a living fountain from the very depths of the universe is the guarantee that failure does not await us, that the ideals of Well-being, of Truth, Beauty and Goodness, are firmly grounded in the nature of things, and will not eventually be endangered or lost. Wholeness, healing, holiness-all expressions and ideas springing from the same root in language as in experience—lie on the rugged upward path of the universe, and are secure of attainment — in part here and now, and eventually more fully and truly.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 25, 9 November 1940, Page 4
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