THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE WAR.
If there are any to-day for whom modesty is befitting, it is the intellectuals. The part they have played in this war is abominable, unpardonable. Not merely did they do nothing to lessen the mutual lack of understanding, to limit the spread of hatred: with rare exceptions they did everything in their power .to dissem : ihate hatred and to envenom To a considerable extent this was their war. Thousands of brains were i>oisoned by their, murderous Qver-weeningiy self-confident, proud; im they sacrificed millions of young lives to the triumph of the phantoms of their imagination. History will not forget.^—'RomWin RolImA. ■■■■■ '" : .; : =' : ;-: •>•' '-■■- •■-'-■■
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 293, 11 October 1922, Page 3
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105THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE WAR. Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 293, 11 October 1922, Page 3
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