BORED WITH LIFE
o : A PATHETIC SPECTACLE. "There is no more pathetic spectacle than that of an age which is bored with life. Materially our modern world is richer than perhaps any preceding age; spiritually we are paupers. Not all our truly wonderful physical accomplishments, not all
our abundance of amusements, and sensations, can hide the fact that we are poor within. In fact, the task of the latter is but to hide the poverty within. When our inner life is arid, we must needs create artificial stimuli from without to provide a substitute or at least cause such an unbroken succession ever-varying sensations that we have no time to notice I the absence of life from within. There are but few who can bear either solitude or silence and find a wealth of life arising in themselves even when there is naught from without to stimulate. Yet such alone are happy, such alone truly live; where we find the craving ror amusement and sensation from without we see an abject confession of inner lifelessness."—Dr Van der Leeuw in "The Soul of Man in a Machine Age."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4565, 5 November 1937, Page 2
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187BORED WITH LIFE King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4565, 5 November 1937, Page 2
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