HUMANITY’S GUIDES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume C, Issue 11623, 5 July 1898, Page 6

HUMANITY’S GUIDES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-r-“ Vox' et Praeterea Nihil” hath chosen to run amuck amid humanity’s guides, and clamour unto the four winds of | heaven thereanent. But his abilities might ! have been more profitably directed to the I adequate study of a tremendously difficult problem. The veriest child may know that ! mankind is suffering from a terrible racialblunder, that social conditions are radically wrong, and tend to a constant increase of the world's conflict and misery. Flippancy and perversion are unwprthy Of the subject; they serve nio good purpose; they do not even display;a,' writer’s ' intellectual force. “ Una Sorella ” fears that'group living may promote selfish disregard for outside concerns. But it is the very keenness of their interest—the acuteness of their sympathy with sorrow of every kind, in every place—that forces the advocates of federated life to press forward toward the mark of their high calling. They are assured that nearly all the sorrows now existent are the consequences of a mistaken’ system.; they have not time or money or health to deal with every consequence, and they have no great faith in the ultimate benefits of legislative :reform. So,they 'concentrate their efforts 'on the root ,of-troublo—the mistaken svs tern.' . They work for the establishment of ' groups, believing that hereafter group will intermingle with" group,'imtil' it last one glorious fusion is consummated in the federation of -the world,—l am,.etc., ■ v."-- 7 'prater.