"KNOWING AND BELIEVING"
A PETITION TO PARLIAMENT.
The second petition of Mr. F. G. Dalziell, of Wellington, to Parliament, is to be presented during the comuig session. The petitioner prays for a ltoyal Commission, or other tribunal, to be set up "to sift what men in New Zealand really know about the constitution of Life from what they merely believe about it." Mr. Dalziell himself has found (lie states in his Reasons} that by sifting knowledge from beliefs that men really know in lifo onby one body of substance, called God or Nature; and this "one body of substance forms its parts, at its discretion, ijito a universe of natural ideas governed as' one kingdom in accordance with one law or principle, popularly known as the spirit of co-operation, and set out in the Gospels as Christ.
Mr. Dalziell affirms that men become subject to the dictation of human masters just in proportion as they fail to accept the spirit of co-operation as their master. Democracies get into trouble because they accept as leaders men who make promises out of inexperience, instead of men who know from experience that man's promises are of no avail against the will of Nature. The simple elements of life, he holds, have- been buried beneath a dense growth of sectional ideas by those in authority in tho dilierent branches of human knowledge, therefore, it, is only a tribunal established by Parliament, and independent or siioh authorities, that can rescue the minds and lives of men from the pass to w.uch they have been brought. Already a committee of the House. ?i n /'< r ' i ? ulziell'» first petition, found tliat while recognising the ethical value of the petitroncr's ideas," his objects could best be attained by educating pnbho opinion. But Mr. Dalziell prayi that Parliament will now realise its responsibilities in this matter, for it is only under its authority that a real cf- , 1,., ca1J be made 'o rescue the realities ol hfo from the vast overgrowth of beliefsthat are to-day taught as knowledge in civilised countries. '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 122, 27 May 1925, Page 16
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