GENERAL SMUTS’ CREED

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3800, 26 August 1936, Page 6

GENERAL SMUTS’ CREED

“If you ask me what is wrong with Europe, I should say the moral basis in Europe, the bedrock of the Christian moral code, has become undermined and can no longer support all that superstructure of economic and industrial prosperity which the last century has built up on it, and the vast whole is now sagging. t "Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of the kings. “There is a decay of principle which is eating at the very vitals of free government Men and women have suffered until they are abdicating their rights as individuals. In their misery and helplessness they are surrendering to a mass will which leads straight to autocracy. “Yet as ever, too, he was bound by his philosophy of Alles sal reg kom to add that ‘mankind is no longer held back by ancient taboos, but is valiantly exploring new ways to a better future. . . What is highest in us is deepest in the nature of things. As virtue is its own reward, so life carries its own sanctions and the guarantee of its highest fulfilment and perfection. That is my ultimate credo.’ ”