SOUL BLINDNESS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 17

SOUL BLINDNESS.

Dear Comrade, —I think "KißrosIcuro's" article on ,: Soul Blindness" is senseless and narrow. These arguments are the vroll-worn battle horses of ignorant parso?)? in war with the man" freed from theological fog. Wo are used to them coming from those quarters, but not from "The Maoriland Worker." I could hardly label myself an Agnostic, but when the despoiling of the workers going on under the cloak of tho "old illusions" is considered, I have so far as to re-coguise agnosticism's honest position." air of superior understanding appears to mc funny. We need beneficient or harmless illusions, but not foolish and cruel illusion?,. Where th.- agnostic is honest enough to say, "] do not know," the sky pilot and spiritual trifler 'begin fabrications to show that they know, and what they know —nothing. And here, lot mc slate that the writer isc an idealist with a touch of "Kiaroskuro's" contempt for the practical man, but let us watch that our idealism does not.run to seed. Give us a man. Let him bo as spiritual as may be, as loving as may be, the more so the better. We arc aware that life is mostly made up of illusions, bufc we are choosing between beneficient and harmful illusions. We do not want crude and harmful tales palmed off on us as truth. In conclusion, ther<i aro more things in hen veil and agnosticism than were dreamed of in "Kiarosto K philosop "- v -"'TdeIW