A UNIVERSAL HEDONIST.
IRRELIGIOUS TERRITORIAL. .Per Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. Judgment was given by Mr. C'ruicksank, S.M., at Wyndham, to-day in a case in which a youth named Caird appealed for exemption from military training on the ground that it was contrary to his religious belief. Caird said that he was a rationalist and humanist, and that he neither affirmed nor denied the existence of a Supreme Being. The magistrate said that he took religion to be a belief binding the spiritual nature of a man to a supernatural being on whom he is conscious he is dependent. Although some might hold teat rationalism, atheism and agnosticism were religions, he could not think that any of these negative anti-theistic views were the, kind of religion meant by the Act. He could not hold, as a matter of law, that applicant had any religious belief whatever, and the application was refused.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 21, 25 June 1913, Page 5
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151A UNIVERSAL HEDONIST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 21, 25 June 1913, Page 5
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