How Good Is Man!
GENERAL j. C. SMUTS, Prime Minister of South Africa and Commander-in-Chief of the South African Forces, on completing his recent tour of the North African war front, broadcast these words:
“As I flew hour after hour over those endless forests and great lakes, over the Great Rift Valley, studded with a jumble of high mountains and extinct volcanoes more magnificent than any to be found elsewhere, I had an overwhelming impression of the vastness and power of Nature .... In this gigantic world, the human element seems dwarfed to utter insignificance, and one bows one’s head in wonder before a sublimity so overwhelming ....
“ lam free to confess that the sight of our boys in East Africa kindled a deeper emotion in me than even that aweinspiring natural scenery. How grand is Nature ! How good is man.!
“The sight of those young men, with their happy, eager faces, with the thought of what they had given up to, serve their fellows, and to make this a safer world for the spirit of man to dwell in security—that sight, that thought, made me realise that their souls were worthy to match this glorious setting of Nature; that the goodness of man was a worthy match for the greatness of Nature. V ,
“. .. Not in mastery, but in service; not in dictatorship, but in freedom, lies the secret of man’s destiny. This is what these young South Africans stand for* and what, I trust, South Africa will stand for till the very end,”
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Northern Advocate, 14 January 1941, Page 4
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