BRIDGE AND CONVERSATION.
“I sometimes suspect that the reason for the popularity of bridge, the necessity for the game in and out of season, extending through a long afternoon or a still longer night, is our bankruptcy in conversation,” writes the Rev. A. E. Whitham in the Methodist Recorder. “We haven’t enough ideas in our heads to make a talk worth while, nor does a treasure-hunt for truth appeal to us. We are far more anxious to know what are trumps than what is truth, and our interest is to guess what cards our partner holds in his hand rather than to learn what ideas he has in his head.
“I am not denouncing this form of entertainment. But the inordinate amount of time spent on it is a reflection upon our powers of conversation— I mean intelligent conversation; and one proof that the majority of people do not want to use the mind for the supreme purpose for which the mind- was given —namely, to distinguish between the true and the false.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1934, Page 14 (Supplement)
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