Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 27 January 1939, Page 4

Timely Topics

“The Communist, Fascist and Na-tional-Socialist systems of education, based upon suggestion and imitation 'are essentially anti-

PERSONALITY SUPPRESSED,

personalis! They tend to develop a sense of general or-

der and harmony at the expense of the personality’s self-realisation.

I “The terrifying idea of universal ! order threatens to reduce the personality to the level of a means; it is j merely the objective formulation on fa cosmic scale of a state of social netcessity—itself one of the objective | forms of the world’s sinful degrada- , tion.

“Any objective idea is necessarily an obstacle to the development of the personality; it has validity only as an integral part of ' human existence. Man himself should be assfessed higher than either society, the nation, or the State, even though these latter may have the power to oppress and enslave him in a world where all relationships are based upon cojnpul- | sion. The function of the objective ; social world is to introduce order, ■ law and authority.”—From “Solitude | and Society,” by the Russian writer | and thinker, Professor Nicolas Ber- \ dyaev.

IS 8? g 0 “The hand of the political assassin,” says the “Yorkshire Post,” “is not' guided by reason or reflection. The motive ' is blind

THE POLITICAL ■ ASSASSIN. .

rage or blank despair, and for these,

where they affect Jews, the Nazi regime- itself is directly and criminally responsible. Its persecution has mbde maniacs or suicides of people, thousands of whose relatives died in the German and Austrian armies during the War as loyal soldiers of their countries. The orgy of licensed anti-Semitic hooliganism which has now been launched against defenceless men, Women and children is such as would disgrace a country of much less repute than Germany for civilisation and order. In other countries whose free institutions it pleases Nazi propagandists to i deiide, such outrages would speedily have been repressed by an angry and disgusted, people themselves, even in the. unthinkable 'event of the ordinary forces of law and order failing with sufficient promptitude to intervene.” ' - *'