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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 9

• The world would do well to consider whether civilisation, as we understand it, is worth .tho,price. In tho multiplicity of our material wants wo are losing sturdy simplicity, atid with it tho moral viebur without wluch no nation can stand. ''Tho survival of'.tho-fittest" wo flatter ourselves is based on a Western standard. In reality it is based on tho capacity to subsist on-little, which our over-civilisation abhors.—"Broad Arrow." Not "a single Australian Government has made a success of its railways. They have always really been bankrupt, and get deeper .and deeper into the miro every year, besides which in some of tho States they are years behind the times. If the lines were run by private companies, with no general taxpayers'to draw upon, they would have been wound up years, ago.—"Pastoralists' Review," Melbourna,