INDIFFERENCE
“A SOCIAL SIN” “We are meant to be interested in each other. The man who ‘can’t be bothered’ with his neighbours will never have a friend. Indifference is a social sin. And the indifferent who stand outside the life around them, and are bored spectators when they might be themselves actors, are certain to be over-ready with criticism and likely to be the makers of quarrels. The Good Samaritan is affectionately interested in his neighbour in normal times, when his neighbour has not fallen among thieves. The querulous are not always the quarrelsome, though the quarrelsome are generally querulous. The groucher is a misery to himself and to everyone else. He sends himself to the stake, and, if there is not one to do it for him, he will himself set the fire alright. Burns wrote in ’Twa Dogs’:
“ ‘But human bodies are sic fools For a’ their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex them, They mak enow themsels to vex them.’ ”
—A correspondent in the Evening News of London.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5493, 3 July 1942, Page 4
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174INDIFFERENCE Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5493, 3 July 1942, Page 4
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