Plea For Mental Freedom
(Received 2.30 p.m.)'',' ,’ ? LONDON, May 11. In his charge to graduates after the presentation of students of London University for degrees, the ViceChancellor, Sir Robert Pickard, commended to them the advice of-a French philosopher to act as men of thought and think as men of action. Continuing, he said: “We are in a stage in the history of European civilisation when the fate of mental freedom is in the balance; and if there is one thing that the universities and their graduates should strive for, it is mental freedom. Without it humanity and civilisation will perish.”
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Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 7
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