TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20183, 1 May 1937, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Truth , Right and Good “Most of us are well accustomed to the saying that Trust will ultimately prevail over Error, Right over Wrong, and Good over Evil. Some of us no doubt have a firm belief in these comfortable predictions. I certainly believe them myself. But they do not always bring me the comfort which many of my contemporaries seem to derive from them,” writes Dr L. P. Jacks in “ Seven Pillars of Fire.” “ The more convinced lam that Truth, Right and Good must ultimately prevail, the more I wonder why they don’t prevail sooner, and the more impatient T become at the long and unnecessary dela3 r s in their progress to victory. I find the word ‘ultimately’ rather irritating, and the fooling of annoyance changes into positive indignation when I hear some monstrous error justified on the ground that it will ‘ultimately come all right since Truth is bound to prevail in the long run.’ I ask myself—When? Does it make no difference whether the Trust prevails next week, or years hence? “ Similarly, when philosophers try to calm my impatience by assuring me that progress is necessarily slow. It inny be; but does it follow that 1 ought to be contented. 1 agree that progress is necessarily slow; hut many of us will have something to answer for on the Day of Judgment for allowing it to be slower than it need have been. The ends at which humanity is destined to arrive may be something slower than that? Ma}’ it not be that wo have been sent into the world for the express purpose of helping Truth, Right and Good to win the victory over their oppositejs as soon as