AN AGE OF VIOLENCE
SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH Professor Gilbort Murray addressed the International Conference of the Association of University Teachers at Oxford. He said they stood for the element of thought, as against the animal elements of passion. One of the characteristics of the present time was a great increase of violence. Violence occupied a position in public life which bo did not remember in any other time of bis life. There was more suppression of truth than he had ever known, and they would have to go back to the Middle Ages to get a position where more innocent people had been imprisoned than there were to-day. Therehad been torturing of prisoners, especially of innocent people. There had been ! more repression of minorities than thero had ever been. In an atmosphere of violence everything for' which they stood was made powerless. If they could not seek truth and speak Irutli, their whole life, the necessity of (heir whole research was gone. It was a . death •blow' if they might say only the thing which someone with a revolver pointed I at them wished them to say.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 August 1934, Page 8
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187AN AGE OF VIOLENCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 August 1934, Page 8
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