THE MARY CONTROVERSY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 53, 13 February 1911, Page 5

THE MARY CONTROVERSY.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Mary’s clever reply I read with interest, and it pleased me to find that she finds nothing but evidences of Love in Nature, as I must confess that in my more material days I failed to find much evidence of it. Nature seemed cruel and exacting, and the law of the survival of the fittest, the victory to the strong, the certain reaping of the sowing, turned the world to me into a sort of charnel house. However, knowledge brought relief, and with Mary I now see that Love is at the back of it. This being so, it seems to me that the duty of Government should be based on the principles as seen in Nature. Anything that retards evolution is consequently contrary to the wish of God as seen in Nature. The Government should therefore provide absolute justice for the people and a fair field in which the individual character may find free scope to attain experience —th sole object of life in this world. Does this tally with the words and example of the, Master? I think so; the texts alluded to by Mary are addressed to the individual, and the object ‘of evolution is surely to produce men who rise above the law and learn that immortality is gained by giving and not taking. The Master taught the evolution of the Character and not of the Government. I am at one with Mary in advocating the individual treading the narrow path pointed out by the Master, and when the majority of mankind are on this path the task of the government will be a simple one. , In the meantime the Government is defeating the law’ of the survival of the fit, which Mary admits is a law based on Love, by coming between a man and his folly or giving a man something he has not earned.—l am, etc., A NAPIER MAN.