“The New Zealand Vice”
Sir,—We may not think Professor Blaiklock believes New Zealanders have a monopoly of selfishness. As a human vice it is an indigene within our Western way of life—as, firstly, selfadvantageous. That colonial exploitation which built up empire (and from which we still profit) was itself a form of vicious selfadvantaging. So when we of the “abandonment of old faiths” we must exclude all that has assisted towards our present self-atisfying state—even religious, formalism, where it has supported our own good against that of others. We must omit, too, educational traditions, social precedents, and political programmes, where these have embellished personal ambitions at the expense of communal values —Yours, etc., FRANCIS WM. HEAL. March 16, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28539, 19 March 1958, Page 3
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