THEY SAY!

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 39, 22 May 1917, Page 2

THEY SAY!

j No art can eclipse degradation I which is not inspired by faith. !

An English audience is the most tolerant in the world.

There is purpose in the blind working of history.

Men are everlastingly preaching economy, and women are unceasingly practising it.

The Church as a body has oee;' apa thetic to social reform.

Every girl in the world is flattered by being told she is not in her proper .environment.

Courage is a sublime form of hypocrisy. Where there is no fear there can be no heroism.

No acquired deformities, dismemberments, or mutilations are ever transmitted to offspring.

Nearly all our tragic blunders, perhaps all of them, can be traced to our materialism, for materialism breeds apathy and self-satisfaction.

What is the object of the European war ? Human liberty. That, and nothing else. Human liberty is the greatest thing in life, and it’s for that we are fighting.

The loneliest lad in the tightest place is wrapped in our love and pride. Millions of us are breathing messages to him as he braces his young will to do his duty.

It is by its soul, far more than by its wealth or its prosperity or its material strength that a nation lives, and while the soul of England lives England will maintain her greatness,

The problem of agricultural revival will confront us after the war is, indeed, confronting us now. It is a problem that party strife can Only handicap. It is above politics ; it is national,

England is 4 nation travelling to the cemetery. Never was the marriage rate so high, never the birth rate so low ; and that at a time when the cry is to replace the men she is losing.

The day has not yet arrived when the Imperial Air Service, as I hope it will eventually be called, will be run as a third arm, with its own cutive in the field, independent of the two existing services. —Lord Montagu.

A German victory would mean that all the efforts, gradual, persistent, and heroic, which have been made to develop human freedom throughout many centuries, would he thrown into the scrapheap, and that the world would be thrust back into the dark days of despotic control.

The German Chancellor says that at this moment the Germans are “deep in Russia.” They are. They are deep in a great many things they do not understand. Russia is really something of a human sea ; there is a thing known to the seabather as being out of one’s depth. And to-day the tide comes in.

When the war is over—when "Peace with Honour" shines once more above Us like a glorious rainbow after storm—shall we —we women who have worked—sink to our old debasement and exclusion from the counsels of men ? No ! To paraphrase the now famous utterance of our great Prime Minister : “We have taken our place, and we shall continue to take it, and to keep it !”—Marie Corelli.