LITTLE LAY SERMONS
[By F. SINCLAIREI IDEAS There are people who flirt with so many ideas that one- can only conclude that to them one idea is like another. There are others of whom it may be truly said that they are not only wedded to their ideas, but henpecked by them. And there are others, again, who appear to have taken a vow of celibacy and to shun the contact of ideas. And others who mistake their promiscuity for catholicity. INSTITUTIONS „ , . , . „ The Odysseus of Sophocles, looking upon his fallen foe, says: “I pity reflecting that we are dust and shadow, all’we that live.” Between Odysseus and our jingoes lies the gulf which we call civilisation, and it is the latter who is on the wrong side of the gulf. Goa gives them victory only to reveal their vulE tS Wof‘certain reformers: Benevolence tempered by make Thp motto of others: Let us mast omelettes, but only on condition that no eg S s ar t.^s’^t l Ys to get a serious matter seriously discussed while the politician is abroadl
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26201, 26 August 1950, Page 3
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