IN PASSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

IN PASSING.

Millionaires nro over-respected in this world.—Mr Walter Runcinmnn. I think it is a very dull and dreary business being consistent^—Mr. George Lansburv.

It is better to trust in tho mass of mankind than in a leader or a theory. —Mr. John Buclian.

It is a great mistake to 'say that no one should do anything unless they can do it well.—Lord Gladstone. Every scientific advance finds ten times as many peaceful and constructive uses as it finds destructive ones.—Dr. Robert Millikan.

It was tho attempt to define too strictly that split Christendom into fragments which have never been reunited.—Mr. Stanley Baldwin.

There is an insidious diseaso to-day which takes the form of pressing buttons and lolling back in a chair to await the result.—Mr. W. K. Stanton. I wonder whether the craze for crosswords is not a satisfaction of the spirit of investigation, which lies deep in every human being.—Professor Winifred Cullis. Scientists,arc guided now'to a large extent by faith, (juid the attitude most of them adopt toward atoms and electrons is, nothing less than mystical.—Mr. Robert Swatin.

Thcro are fathers and mothers, who seem incapable of co-existing with a child unless they cast around a great shadow as of a spreading chestnut tree.—Dr. 11. Criehlon-Millcr.

I am not sure that tho majority of human beings are not honestly convinced that tho pursuit of wisdom is tho most worthless and useless pursuit of all.—Mr. Robert Lynd.