OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 18 May 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

The question of to-day.—lt is no longer a question with political parties whether social conditions should be altered, but ot how best to alter them.—Lord Emriiott.

The thing, needrul.—The physician must be able to make his patient believe in him ; for without this faith his ministration may be as nothing. Dr. Ernest S. Reynolds.

An affair of state.—The purpose of a State is not to manufacture millionaires, but to train up healthy, efficient, and intelligent men and women.—Rev. Silverster Home, M.P.

Take care of ithe pence.—lt is as true of social reform as of money that it one takes care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves. —Rev. E. Dalton.

Britain in the van.—Whether in boating, cricket, football, literature, or poetry, Britain was never so efficient; so much to the front as she is now.—Lord Henry Bentinck, M.P. Real wealth.-.-The real wealth of a nation is not in its gold, its silver, its palaces, and principalities, but in its men and women.—Mr William Brace, M.P. : Coudemlned.—Any social system which merely enables its subjects to live the physical life is wrong and ought to be? swept away.—Mr A.. Sheard. The best preparation.—A good allround, education, aimed at developing the whole man, is the-best preparation for attacking successfully the problems which face boys and girls entering upon some vocation.—Mr J. H. Brittain.

A legal opinion —The law, defends the rich, but it also defends the poor. I remember ; however, an old solicitor saying to me, when a young man, "The law is a very good, thing, but if you owe a man 205., and he says you owe him 305., pay him the 30s and have done,with it."—Sir Samuel livans.

A difference.—lt is not what a a man eats that does him good, but what he assimilates; not what he reads, but /what he thinks.—Sir William H. Stephenson.

Physical education.—The true ideal of physical education is not to become a strong man. It is to have one's body, .under such command that it.will do one's will in the quickest possible moment.--Mr Cecil Sharp.