QUEST FOR TRUTH
PROFESSOR’S ADVICE TO STUDENTS FAREWELL ADDRESS AT WELLINGTON (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. “The quest for truth in every conceivable connection should be the chief concern of university students. Therefore unreservedly accept the supremacy of your common sense, your reason and your personal experience, especially when you find them corroborated and verified by the common sense, reason and experience of the more enlightened thinkers of your time.”
This advice to his students was given by Professor Hugh Mackenzie. M.A., Foundation Professor of the English Language of Literature at Victoria University College, when he was farewelled by students after close on 38 years’ service. Professor Mackenzie told the students to keep an open mind in the search for truth and accredited knowledge. Irrationalism was the bane of religion. ethics and philosophy. “Above all, do not rely on passing your examinations merely by the agency of prayer,” said the Professor. “Pray by all means, but let your prayers be to the effect that God would give you greater will power and greater brain power to take your studies seriously, so that you may deserve to pass your examinations.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 9 October 1936, Page 5
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190QUEST FOR TRUTH Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 9 October 1936, Page 5
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