POT-POURRI

Grey River Argus, 26 November 1942, Page 7

POT-POURRI

(By H. L. Evans.) In 'the enormous majority of our actions we are clearly as automatic as the bird, but our mental life is enlarged by our power of reasoning. We still say that the sun rises and sets, though literally this is an expression of the erroneous ancient belief that the sun travelled round the , earth 1 Compared with the universe, as a whole, the earth and men sink into insignificance, something of less importance than a tiny heap of sand covered with a community of busy ants Stupid men are always governed by the more cunning. There is only progress when there is a* conscious Struggle to bring it about. The animals that do not struggle slink into their shells Tke ojsters and get nowhere, or else they just live lon other animals, sucking their blood, | which is a kind of life we should all detest.. I The opportunist wing of any party [always justifies all retrograde tendencies, whether in progress, tactics or organisation. Opportunism in programme is naturally connected with opportunism in organisation. In its struggle for power the working class has no other weapon but organisation. New ideas come, not so much by growth in one man’s mind, but by the comparison of the ideas of different people. Man has no “mind” that can act on his body; but that what you call his mind or character is just a bunch of ideas, and feelings, that he has taken from the world !he has lived in since he was a baby. Large numbers of people are almost automatically prepared to love .anyone in authority over them on the [least excuse. Left'-wing propagandists know that these persons are [maddening obstacles in the path of [those who seek to improve their conIditions. They stick to the “boss!” • These are the men and women who ;have never grown up mentally.