OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11360, 12 April 1915, Page 4

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

"IF WE ONLY STAND TRUE;' " I have no fear for the issue now, except that tardiness may retard it— I have no fear for tho issue if wo only stand true to ourselvos and face the truth and realise the vital importance of tho crisis in which wo arc destined to live.—Lord Rosebery. V ' MADE IN GERMANY.

The fact is that for the last two generations British scholars, British theologians and British men of science havo aimed chiefly at being the first to introduce into this country the least tJiiug said in Germany, even though it might bo only the worthless thesis produced by sonic young candidate for tlie doctorate. But what was worse, no one dreamt of inquiring whether ' the statements or arguments of the savant under consideration \rero accurate or his argument valid.-—Professor Ifidgowivy.

TO KILL "MILITARISM. England is determined never to submit or yield and never to make peace until the devil of militarism has been so vanquished that it will never trouble the earth again. English courage and the spirit of hope is magnificent, and nothing could be more grand than their wives and mothers and the attitude they take on the war.—"Mr Joseph Ciioatc. *■.. •* COMMON LAW AGAINST WAIL There is no way of stopping the scientific development of warfare without a. common law against war equipment, the setting up by a confederation of "states, abovo all existing Governments of a common law that shall rule the earth—Mr H. G. Wells. THE CHURCH'S PAST. Men's hearts are touched—touched to the quick. The horrors of this war are shelling down class distinction, selfishness and party passion in a way never known before. It remains •with the Church to see that they are never rc-ercctcd. —Bishop of Chelmsford. BOYS AND EXAMINATION'S. Some of the shrewdest and the ablest boys in tho ordinary affairs of life that 1 have had to deal with have absolutely refused io |nt*s any written examination at all; and many of them arc now

filling high positions, particularly in tho colonies. -.Mr TO. Sharwood Smith. A BAD ICXAMI'LK. If, under the plea, of efiieiouoy. ivO but everything to tlio expert, and en-t-onraged the plain man in the. idea that he has no interest in educ.ntion, we should like Germany-.-pay n terlidh.i pi'icii, a.nd--again like Germany—fail to obtain our ohj.x't. -Mr J. !,. Holland.