MATERIAL HAPPINESS
Mr. Allan Monkhouse's reference to the "purely material happiness of young Russia lias provoked a great deal of controversy. May I ask what is the dominating trend of our" so-called "Christian civilisation"? Are politics as pursued to-day based on anything but materialistic concepts and considerations? Had tho representatives at the recent World Conference any other objective but the material advantage of their respective countries? Aro tariffs, quotas and exchange, jugglery indicative of a higher degree of "spirituality among the Western nations? I am not deprecating all of these tilings. Some may be necessitous, as men are not yet fully-fledged archangels. But where is the sense and consistency of this endless girding and canting at materialism in Russia? Does it not govern in our own political, economic and financial spheres, and in no small degree in that of religion ? . R.C.S.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 6
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