AS OTHERS SEE US.
“Happily, no power lias given us the gift ‘to see ourselves as others,see us.” There is the real man in the sight of his Alnker,’’' and wlint that is we may have glimmerings, but wo can never know. Clearly tlie honest biographer lias a difficult- job,” adds Air John Buchan, ALP., in the “Sunday Chronicle.” “There is an Eastern proverb that a lion and ail ape dwell side by side in the heart of every man. Also a poet (presumably a milnor bard) is said to have died young iu each of us. The romance of life is the sudden appearing of the fin e, or part of it, from, behind the mask. A man’s dreams arc rarely Ins achievements. Stevenson, in bis ‘Lantern Bearer,’ lias shown the dingiest soul nursing some small lamp of idealism.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1928, Page 3
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