KNOWING WHAT AND HOW

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 6

KNOWING WHAT AND HOW

“People require knowledge for the guidance' of itheir political liife just a,s much as their leaders require enlightenment. A brilliant American, Mr Llippmarui, postulates the theory that the new -ideal 'can be found in the idea of Mastery—an ever-in-creasing mastery founded on an everincreasing knowledge of man over nature and equally—-this is very im-portant-over h'imself. Left us imagine tbs' vision till at it would imply. On the material side we might see disease and suffering.reduced to narrower and narrower limits; the soil rendered productive to tine- utmost limits of its capacity, the amenities of life in town and country made as sweet and wholesome, and therefore as beautiful as art and science can together accomplish; and, above ail as William Morris imagined the joie de vivrtl made a.s- real in work as in recreation. On the moral side we might see the full and fearless mastery of man over himself; the principle of religion recognised and acted upon: the study of the human intellect, emotions and instincts undertaken in order that their limitations, might he guarded against and their potentialities developed, and institutions adapted to the known needs of human nature, and not constructed to a prior principle l .”—Rev. R. H. Murray, Litt.D.