SELF-REALISATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 3

SELF-REALISATION.

'ADDRESS BY MR. WILSON FRITCH. The New Socialist Hall, Mannersstreet, was comfortably filled last evening, when Mr. Wilson Fritch, formerly of the United States and now of Melbourne, gave an illuminating address on "Self-Realkation." As a speaker, Mr. Fritch has many graces of delivery and style. His voice is full-toned and impressive, and ' ho held the attention of his audience throughout. He enumerated various agencies which hinder, and others which facilitate, the full realisation of one's true personality and character. Among the former was the idea of sacrifice in all its unlovely forms, such, for example, as the sacrifice of the female to the male in marriage ; the sacrifice of man to a pei'niciouß nolion of duly. "We should not sacrifice anything that is the genuine expression of our souls." Polonius's advice to his son : ''This above all, to thine own self be true," must bo acted upon if men were to be true to others. Not otherwise could they escape being false to their fellows. Life would be a harmonious symphony if we were all £rue to ourselves. Repression and suppression of one's own self were wholly bad things; conventions and a false idea of consistency kept most of us from being ourselves. The speaker quoted a beautiful stanza from Shelley's "Skylark" to illustrate what the life of each individual might become — "an unbodied joy," whose race has just begun. Numerous ofter excerpts from thinkers and poets gave a literary flavour to Mr. Fritch's address, at the conclusion of which he was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.