PRIDE IN THE WRONG PLACE
Our modern disease (writes Professor ! F. M. Kettle ih Public Opinion) is not that we arc proud, but that we are proud about the Wrong things. Wo have gained the whole world, and cravenly cancelled our own souls. Many of our popular novelists and their readers are in the ease of the kittg in the fairy-tale ; they are naked to all the winds. Human life needs a garment of philosophy if it is to endure, and they have none. If a tnan will but consent to accept that which has been woven for him by the secular labour of civilisation out of many inter-mixed fibres-" God, immortality, the Christian creed, marriage, property, and freedom—he need not shiver. As a magnet pulls into patterned order what Was an incoherent mass of iron filings, so these central ideas send out a current of principle through tho vast and amaaing medley of modern life and literature.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 17
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158PRIDE IN THE WRONG PLACE Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 17
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