OUR MENTAL ASSETS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4008, 14 July 1931, Page 6

OUR MENTAL ASSETS.

"Knowledge is. of course, an asset. \\ c may take that us common ground. the acquisition of any asset in life connotes a responsibility in its use. “First, that ono should not be either a nuisance or a danger The possession of a piano or a violin or a parrot illustrates the first kind of responsibility in the use of an asset. The possession of a motor car or a bulldog is an illustration oi Iho second. There is another obvious duty in the possession of any asset not to waste what others might use better; not ,to monopolise or exclude. There is nothing we hate more than a ‘dog in the manger’ ! “The third duty towards any asset that has been painfully built up by tiie efforts of many before us is to preserve it from damage, to make good its wear and tear, to pass it on in as good a condition at least as we found it," and if possible, a better. “The fourth duty follows from the modern ethical view that the justification of personal property is a sense of steward ship, so that every asset we have shall lie put to its highest use for ourselves and for society.. This asset of knowledge is fast becoming a liability! “These four tests go to the very roots of the purpose of life itself. _ Knowledge is either lumber in your mind or else it does something to you. and it is the something it does to you that is your asset.”—Sir Josiah Stamp.