MODERN PROFIT AND LOSS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2666, 6 September 1937, Page 2

MODERN PROFIT AND LOSS

“Our age is too diffident about recent address. “Various causes have given us a rather bad inferiority complex, and we imagine we shall not show up well in the records of history in the face of later generations. But, on the other hand, there are some directions in which this century has won distinction; in science, in all the sciences, it shines out as a great creative age; in industry and industrial development this is a time of remarkable progress; in the organisation of society and in many of the spheres of social reform this twentieth century can hold up its head in comparison with its predecessors. But I am afraid it is not a great epoch in philosophy, in religion, nor in the arts, for I fear it must be confessed that in poetry, drama, music, painting, sculpture, there have been many centuries which have far surpassed what the twentieth century has accomplished so far. In this sphere it may be that architecture in some degree will redeem our age. We have in architecture a very living art, with originality—which many people do not greatly like—and with distinction.”