THE WORLD TO-DAY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 August 1924, Page 8

THE WORLD TO-DAY.

COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE PAST.

The series of lectures and counterfitl|rF,iniaKl of Ki ”g Edward’s Hospital • 1 und is now ended, savs The limes. “Hot Blood or Cold BloodP” Wo eon + c ' h,dll1 g subject. Mr James +1 °" L he °\ ie hand, contended that throughout historv all great actions, all progress, had been the result f impulse Had Caesar hesitated to cross the Rubicon he would have been lost Having delivered himself briefly to this purpose, Mr Agate proceeded to formulate his ideas of the world reconstruction. Mr Philip Guedalla, who championed cold blood, retorted that Ucsar certainly.crossed the Rubioan. Imt whether it had been good for Rome was doubtful, while the result was certainly fatal to himself. Then as Mr Agate had looked OV€J . wid<J fieWs of the future, Mr Guedalla took the liberty to turn his eyes on the past and alien aspects of.the present, tie looked back with wistful re "ret to ; J «i! art « d coolness and method of the 18th century, when the sentences of prose writers parsed, and poets knew how to construct' a line that scanned; and he criticised the false and alcoholic heartiness of certain ptesent writers and the worldliness of the clergy who, he said, made it .doubtful whether they were conducting a morning service or an es'enin" paper. &