THE NEW AGE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14841, 19 February 1919, Page 8

THE NEW AGE.

(To the Editor of the Herald.) Sir. — Your leading article on "How Backward We Are," nnd subsequent articles on similar subjects appearing m your paper, such as the Beautifying Association,- beach and town improvement, j electric schemes, etc., should make all , who love our land and humanity put on their considering cap and ask why we cannot find money for armies of construction instead of destruction. We , only need to -use our intuition to realise! that there is enough power m our rivers i and hilly country that could be converted into reservoirs for power plants. It has been calculated that m olden days it took 400,000 men to do the. work that ono train will do m a day. In this new age that is dawning electric science alone could give us power, and power will give . us leisure to develop not only our towns but our own latent Divine powers. Herbert Spencer says the progress of the world will be accomplished when we liberate the human race from toil, but the shame of science m the past is that it has been used to increase the wealth of a few and not to reduce the toil of the many. With modern science applied to the uplift of humanity as a whole this could be acoomplislfed. It has been said there is enough power m the Niagara falls to do all tlie work of America, and our own experts have told us (until they are almost weary) that they can do" thee, same for New Zealand ; .and I maintain, sir, we only need to polarise the opposite way to what we have been doi net m the past to accomplish this. Work for the larger self. It has been well said "We are all of one life, we are all of one love, poor and rich, weak and strong, we are all one humanity and we sink or rise together" ; so let us work for co-operation, not oompetiton. Brotherhood, not selfishness; the selfish are ever discontent and unhappy. Industrial slavery must go the way of physical slavery. * Years ago William Lloyd Garrison was dragged through Boston streets for denouncing^ slavery ; _it was the mightiest vested interest m the world, then worth £400,000,000 yet it has passed away. And so m this new age that is dawning where brotherhood will reign supreme, and man will find it is more blessed to give than receive. The more we give the fuller shall bo our life. Men make vast sums of money an 4 yet )i deadly discontent m; | vades' them and- a weariness m the I midst of their wealth. Well, let them pour it out m service of their fellowj men, and they will understand the true spiritual life ; the more they- give the j'more spiritual life throws back. Tbe We have at lben cast m the melting pot, t age, is going, put m fire and' suffering. We have all oe'en cast m the melting pot and the pure gold is being poured out into new moulds, and even the dross is scattered over the earth as manure, and the seeds of suffering shall take new birth as flowers of wisdom and love and' those who lost their lives m life's "battle shall find re-birth m a new conception of heaven and a new earth, where the latent Hidden Brotherhood m everyone's heart shall manifest, and, thy kingdom come on earth shall be an es--tabiished fact, and not only a pious belief. These are some thoughts that I claim the privilege of a free press to Write. The orthodoxy of to-day is the heterodoxy of to-morrow." To quote Sir Edwin Arnold : — Who toiled a slave may come anew a Prince _ , Por gentle worthiness and merit won ; Who ruled a King may wander earth m; rags For things . done and undone. —I am, etc.y G. H. LOOKETT.