TOPICS OF THE DAY
A Halt for Science “ The application of science to human life lias made, the modern generation broadly incapable of amusing itself,” writes Mr C. E. M. Joud, in the London Daily Herald. “We have forgotten how to sing and play; we turn on the gramophone. We have forgotten how to walk; we get into the ear or the bus.
“We have forgotten how to talk; we pitt on the radio, enjoying the cheap, standardised pleasures which are provided for everybody, instead of providing individual pleasures for ourselves. Science has multiplied our wants and increased the complexity of our lives. Increasingly we demand that everything should be done for us. Increasingly we live a ‘ press-the-button ’ existence. A drastic simplification .of life would improve our health, our minds and our elm raiders.
“*Tf for a time we could arrest this spate of inventions which multiple so embarrassingly upon the means to the good life, we might have time to learn how to live. If we could only stop the scientists from gratifying our alleged wants, we might have leisure to determine what cur wants really aro.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19460, 27 December 1934, Page 6
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