WANTED—FAITH IN IDEALS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 12

WANTED—FAITH IN IDEALS.

"To-day's life's music is full of dissonance; the larger visions are hidden by the dust raised in ephermeral toil; and the purple peaks of noble achievement are shunned by cowards who hug in fear- their narrow Values," writes Mowbray Saben in the Forum. "Our very democracy, as yet, is only a thing of shreds and patches; no real democracy glorified through faith and freedom, but only the make-believe of spread-eagle spouters and machine politicians. No wonder that literature halts. It is not strange that the sunkissed hills of romance appear to have dissolved into myths and fables. A person must feel the heart-beat of the universe to be a poet. "Only men of faith in ideals can transform the intellectual desert of the world into the gardens of romantic hope and expectation. We still await the avatars of truth and beauty, who shall realise for us democracy and art, and shall, by so doing, scatter the seeds of a new gladness throughout the world."