INDIVIDUAL SUBORDINATED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23687, 20 December 1938, Page 9

INDIVIDUAL SUBORDINATED

" In Germany it has been said that everything that is not prohibited is compulsory," said Lord Samuel, in his presidential address to the British Institute of Philosophy. " The individual human soul and intellect is made subordinate. No one is allowed to say ' I.' Everyone must say ' We.' People are not allowed to know facts that are vital to them. If the thinkers of the world know that all tl.is is wrong, have they not the duty to rise up and say so? The British people always have a healthy practical spirit which seeks to arrive at positive results and is not discouraged by obstacles. So in international affairs we shall still seek to establish the policy of ' peaceful change' and to restore the collective discussion and guidance which is a condition of the sane ordering of the world In national affairs we shall still stand fast for our own ideals of freedom and justice. If we can succeed in the political sphere, then the strong moral forces innate in the people will bring things of value after—in religion, art and letters, and in social conditions, in all the elements that make a worthy civilisation. So these two troubled post-war decades may be followed by a third that is better."