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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4845, 14 May 1936, Page 4

Addressing graduates at Canterbury University College, the Rev. J. L. Robinson said that there were many sinister features in the world to-day to which they could direct their studies and contribute to a solution, reports the "Stanr-Sun." The first was the problem of the totalitarian State, which had emerged since the war. It claimed to dominate, direct, and control the individual life of the community, refusing to recognise the independence of the individual and seeking to impose a particular philosophy. That was a new conception of the State, or, alternatively, the revival of something very old. The only real authorities were religion and conscience. When the State stepped into the field and demanded the surrender of personality it was going beyond the bounds of its province. Another problem lay in the. question whether scientific attainments had outstripped man's capacity to control them, whether a Frankenstein monster had been created which might turn and rend him. He referred to weapons of war,