THE SEDDON MEMORIAL.
Sir,—With reference to'a letter appearing in your paper, .this'morning regarding the Seddon Memorial, kindly allow-me a few words Memorial, kindly allow me a few words in reply. Your correspondent remarks that many people here would be glad of a "section of land," " a cow," etc. I wonder whether he advocates the distribution of these gifts instead of spending monoy on the momorial? I once road in a book that "The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living," and from experience I can say there is sound truth in it; providing men would be more like the little bees, in-storing away for rainy days, though it be a bit at a time, and . not spend too much on drink. But'why shouldn't a'memorial be erected, and a good one too? We are supplied through Nature with all kinds of beautiful _ stone, marble, etc., and. man is given brains, and each is useless without the other; therefore, as wo have the both, I certainly advocate the cause of Art. So that, by thoughtful appreciation and study of all forms and sounds that are beautiful, men may become what they were intended to bo — the noblest work of God. Thero isn't too much real architectural beauty in the country yet, so that monoy spent on a Seddon Memorial wouldn't be thrown away.—l am, etc., LAVORO. June 10.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 224, 15 June 1908, Page 8
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