WHAT MEN ARE
" There is a challenge to the definite existence of a line between what is right and what is wrong,", said Lord Irwin ex-Viceroy of India, in a speech reported in the Yorkshire Post. " Psy-cho-analysis tells us there are many explanations why people want to do this and that, and that all must be taken into account. The result is to drive individuals to pursue not what they conceive to be right, but what they think will make them happy, and the pursuit of happiness, therefore, becomes more and more the goal of more and more people, and the standard of values on which our lives depend tends to get itself built on the fluctuating sands of convention and public opinion, with no secure sanction to hold it in place. "What men and women do in life depends very much more on what they are than upon what they know, and what they are will always depend upon whether they have any permanent principles by which to steer their course."
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3213, 6 August 1932, Page 3
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172WHAT MEN ARE Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3213, 6 August 1932, Page 3
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