ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND.
R. H. Neil, the Imperially-minded, from Shis self-imagined pinnacle of omniscience, attempts to flatten me with his "made-in-Japan" proverb. Unwittingly he pays me high compliment. lam so conscious of wihat I have yet to learn that I continue to seek. I can still humble myself and say, "Lord have mercy upon me, an ignorant sinner." And in that spirit perhape there is intellectual salvation. If I were a Pharisee of the R. H. Neil typo I might "thank God I am not as other men" and continue in ignorance, but where there is humility there is hope. There is one other essential in which we differ, and that is, if I start a verbal contest I stand my ground, but the other party seeks to escape* the contest after hurling an Oriental stink bomb. I shall accept his invitation to desist, for argument is only profitable when a measure of ignorance is admitted. Off the Neil type of mind argument bounces "like hail from an iron roof." . JOHN A. LEE.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 6
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174ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 6
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