NOBILITY IN HUMBLE LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 225, 21 September 1921, Page 7

NOBILITY IN HUMBLE LIFE.

(To the Editor.) ct , Sir,—Tn the trade schools in Munich a cobbler or a chimney sweep is taught that if he really masters his task he is an educated gentleman. A graduate of such a school can hold up his head in school circles in any land—not in the sense that he possesses a great store of theoretic knowledge, but for the reason Si that he has thoroughly perfected himself of in some line at least of scientific indus- si: try which will be useful to mankind, tt True nobility as well as true happiness is pi to be found in faithfully fitting oneself tl lor his sphere of duty whatever that tc may be. For the man consecrated to m the highest ideal there can be no contra- ta diction between the theoretic and the hi practical. In other words, the man who ft has learned to do something better than m anyone else, who has learned to do a <i< common thing in an uncommon manner, di is a man who has a power and influence - s * that no adverse circumstances can ever ti take from him.—l am, etc., in GEORGE WINSTANLEY. s * ID