THE CHANGING WORLD
REVOLT AND REBELLION
"We stand at the threshold of a new age more dynamic than the Renaissance,; Reformation, and industrial revolution combined," remarked Kir. F. Milner when addressing the Secondary Schools* Association yesterday. "This age," he continued, "is instinct with revolt and rebellion. It . challenges . all standards, dogmas, conventions,: and beliefs. The whole realm of art .in its perversions, caprices, and heresies evidences the: upheaval. Religion is threatened by secularisation and materialism. : Our conception of the cosmos without and the atom within is revolutionised by the iconoclaßm of science. In the political'sphere even democracy is placed on trial. Socially our oldest institutions are1 subjected to'■■distinctive criticisms. In 'the field of economics the victimisation of the public by specious panaceas and magic formulae proceeds apace. ; ■ J 'r - "Internationally the world is shrinking to unity.- Old political doctrines based on splendid isolation are jettisoned for ever. Already there are tokens .of growing world consciousness , and of the realisation of a coming world order. The demands of nationalism are being reconciled with international 'obligations to humanity. Even America is forced to realise that today she is functioning in a, world of complex economic interdependence."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 11
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194THE CHANGING WORLD Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 11
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