MORAL LINE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13772, 15 October 1942, Page 3

MORAL LINE

CRITICAL IDEALISM

FIGHT TO DEATH

“There is always enough good in the world to fight evil. There is always enough evil in the world to tin eaten good. And it is a fight to the death. The whole point is that there is a recalcitrant evil which will not respond to deeds of unselfish suffering and must be met by hard and invincible force which it cannot resist. Evil will not be allowed to run rampant in eternity. It must not run rampant in time. It is a selfbetraying realism which surrenders to the forces of evil and turns the world over to their cruel power’. When the forces of darkness unleash their evil energies, they must be met and conquered. And there is nothing to be apologetic about this gathering of the forces of good will to fight the forces of evil. If childhood is to be safe, if virtue is to be protected, if the slowly won gains of civilisation are to be maintained, ,we must he ready to surround these things with a wall of flame. So shall they be protected and maintained. If you have love without righteousness, you have sentimentality. If you have righteousness without love you have a hardness which may become cruelty. If you have moral love you have that critical idealism which may ire trusted safely with th.e future of the world.”—Dr. Lynn Harold Hough, Dean of Drew University, U.S.A., in the course of a recent Convocation address.