APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
Tolerably early in life i discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is lor a man to presume to go about uubibelled. 'I be world regards such a person as the police do an unmiu'.zlod dog, not under proper control. 1 could find no label that would suit me, so, in my desire to range myself and be respectable, I invented one; and, as the eiiief tiling I was sure of was that I did not know a great many things that the -ists and the -ites about me professed to be familiar with, 1 called myself an Agnostic. Surely no denomination could be more modest or more appropriate; and 1 cannot imagine why I should be every now and then baled out ol my refuge and declared sometimes to be a Materialist, sometimes an Atheist, sometimes a Positivist, and times, alas and alack, a cowardly or reactionary Obscurantist.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1932, Page 1
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