ANTI-HUMBUG'S MORALITY.

NZ Truth, Issue 591, 14 October 1916, Page 8

ANTI-HUMBUG'S MORALITY.

Dear "Truth,"— -The writer under the abovo heading m your issue of October 7, 10,16, would have saved himself a lot of troubja had he first defined wbat his morality amounts to and clearly shown how and wherein It differs from the common or garden variety, with which we aro all familiar. He heads his contribution of on« and a half column's of your spaco with the "Poverty of Morality." Now, morality, properly speaking, has nothing to do with poverty; therefore, tho "Poverty of Morality" is a meaningless phrase. "Anti-Humbug" should be against humbug; but the heading of his long letter Is humbug, and a very large portion of his dissertation is nothing short, of being the same thing. "Morality," properly so-called, \& the state of what Is right. Moral conduct. Is right conduct. Moral thought, is right thought. Moral action, is right action. To sneer at morality is to sneer at what Is right. A system of nountl ethics is simply a system of sound stepping-stones to higher and bettor things. "The truth [shall niako you free," is an. absolutely sound statement. Now, truth, properly speaking, belongs to words: therefore, tho proper definition of truth is, "actuality In words." If man has risen from the simplest forms of life (and all science worthy of the name declares that he has). \\ waa the deeire within, prompting him on to something I better, that enabled him to reach a conscious Gtate, then an Intellectual, then «. moral and, finally, a spiritual state of existence. It is impossible for what is right to be wrong. Juat o» it is Impossible for what la true to be fulse. There are many things called right that are clearly wrong, Just :js there aro many statements given forth as being absolutely true which »re clearly | faLsehoods. Booing that wo human beings have travelled thus far, ia there any ucnae In urging that we should turn round and "scrap" ail tho gema of existence that our race has carefully and painfully garnered for our udI vantage m tho long and laborious climb [ from protoplasm to our present munjhood? Sense! Why It Is the shallowest kind of Insanity. It is nil very well for writers of "Antl- Humbug's" | kind to praise up the "anel#ot»" and i great men of old, as If thoy were so much bettor than our presont ruler* are m tho matter of right. The olden : times and tho olden men are all right j enough to write and talk nonsense about; but sense and worth In the ; present day In our 12rnplre have a far ! better chance to grow and thrive and find ttxprusHlon for themselves amid | kindly surroun.JlnpA tlntn w<i« ever obI tainablo m any juist period |i> tho hln- | tory of tliia onrth. Then, again. thor« !Is thljt incossnut tulk wbout natural law, und (}>'< law of foreo. ox being- iho proper rcnuxJy for social Inequality. j This mere weight of numbers Is fondly ffuppoKed to bo, and l.t strongly advocated a«. tho good God who will rhrht | nil tho wrongs nf iho working man. j It l» only another way to mLilettfl lha'. muuh nbußAil ponton. "Nature is all that exists or that van t-xl«t." h«iu-f thorp «rt« millions of natural !uv.«. The working 1 man can only rbu\ u« all man* kind hw» risen, by growing uvcr upwards. — Voum. etc., J. O. TAYKOM. Infflewood,