“FAITH OF OUR FATHERS”
‘The chief source of spiritual nourishment for any nation must be its own past, perpetually rediscovered and renewed. ... He who would reject these ideas (of puritanism and democracy) must be prepared to accept in some degree one or more of their opposites: a frivolous disregard of moral questions, together with aimlessness and inconstancy: a confusion or a promiscuity of values; a blurring of moral distinctions, and a lack of principle; a shallow optimism or a complacent self-satisfaction, bred by the ignorance or the condoning of evil . . . a reckless iTfeSponsibility and indifference to the true well-being of one's Ttfilghbours; a cynical admission of failure, and acquiescence in the meaninglessness of life. . . .’V-(Dr. Ralph Perry, Harvard Professor of Philosophy in “Puritanism and Philosophy.”)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 25 May 1945, Page 3
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