WINNING V. EARNING.
During these da-wning years of the twentieth century, where so manv questions have been ansivered. in part, end where so many issues have been raised and laid, to rest again, men and women innumerable, in every walk of life, have awakened to a realisation of the realities of life. Grout and small, they have turned aside from the false gods of their youthful training to a new understanding of (heir obligations to mankind, chief among which stands tho o ],_ .ligation of creating an economic world in which he who expends effort shall be rewarded, while he who is unwilling to enter the workshop of life shall receive but the barest subsistence which will hold life intact. Wliat other message we this one can. the producers of v.eallh dispatch to the recipients of property income? All men must finally learn "the immorality and practical inexpediency of seeking to acquire wealth by winning it from another rather than by earning it by some sort of servico to one's fellowmen."—Scott Nearing.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11685, 29 April 1916, Page 8
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171WINNING V. EARNING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11685, 29 April 1916, Page 8
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