DOCTOR ON SOUL-MAKING.
“ Every age has its characteristic, and posterity, I fear, will say of us that we were materialistic people, that we were distinguished by a desire for fast movement and noise, and that / our reaction to the noble unequalified effort of .the Great Wav
was expressed in a raw, crude materialism. To all such things as that some kind of antidote is necessary, something which will give a refuge and solace from the social miseries of our time,” said Lord Moynihan in a speech reported in the Yorkshire Post. “Itis my confident belief and frequent personal experience that it is in the contemplation, appreciation and enjoyment of art we can find certain things explained to us. We find not only relief from our social miseries, but contentment does not so much depend on material things as on the inward peace which we all seek ,in one way or another, and which frees us from the more narrow limitations and hampering apprehensions of our material surroundings. If life is not to be a feast or a spectacle or a predicament, but is to be a sacrament, it can only be because we indulge in what Keats called ‘.soul making,’ and give ourselves the opportunity of allowing our souls to grow.”
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Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1112, 7 April 1930, Page 7
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