A TRAGIC PICTURE
“ Galsworthy’s * White Monkey,’ with the rind of a sucked orange in his hand, is a sardonic picture of irritated- futility. Aldous Huxley’s novels breathe the same air, deeply tainted with moral decay. ‘ What fun it would be if one did not need to think about happiness,’ says one of the people in his ‘ Brave New World.’ People can see no sign of a worth-while purpose in life as it meets them. Millions live from day to day in a world unlit by anything higher than the fitful flame of instinct or impulse reacting to environment. The psychological determinists may be wrong in theory; in counties cases they are right in fact. There is not a single figure in Mr Priestley’s ‘ Angel Pavement ’ —to take one example—who ever seems to have heard of' religion or who ever dreams that here might be a principle of guidance in life that can free men from themselves. The result is a tragic picture.”—Rev. Jas. Reid, president of the British National Free Church Council.
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 3
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