WANTED—MEN WHO KNOW.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1298, 29 November 1911, Page 9

WANTED—MEN WHO KNOW.

-*—■ 1 WHAT HIE DEMOCRACY NEEDS. "Fifty years airo the prophets r.f the sonuu.se age-men who spoke of what would happen fifty years after their time had jone—sixj.'-io of the coming democracy as the-reign of, widespread intelligence, disinterested service, brotherhood, of common'enterprise and common sense." sni.l 016. Archbishop of York, preaching in Sheffield 011 "University Sunday" end reported'by the "Sheffield Independent." "Alas, I wonder if these prophets would refute their paeans now all these years harn passed. And yet, my brothers, democracy., is here, democracy is mat, demotraoy might 1)0 strong; but there is a grave danger that it might weak and with JtS weakness he a danger. '"We are surrounded —we know it well— by- a 1 widenpread ignoranoe which is deluded by tho superficial belief that it is knowledge. What we need for our nation at' the present time is men who know what knowing means, who know tho difference hetwoen knowing and not knowing, and have acquired a standard cf'knowledgo '.hat will. help them to discriminate between the ideal and the possible, between sentiment and sense, and between reason and/rant. For the supply of such persons we must look to our universities " -