OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.
Wo cannot leave out of sight the historical element in dealing with the present conditions of any race or people. And just as little can we, in casting up personal accounts, leave out of our calculation long and ingrained habits of mind, such as those which (in the present connection) made Sir Robert Stout a missionary of agnosticism or materialism. Says Byron, “Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.” And it is not, perhaps, altogether unreasonable to suppose that, at the back of Sir Robert’s peculiar attitude towards religion-, there may even still remain in odd corners of in’s heart some traces of resentment against those who are supposed to have long been his political opponents —and oven to have caused a check in his- parliamentary career. These, too, happen to he the people who conduct the great bulk of the religious schools in the Dominion of New Zealand. These things may, of course, bo merclv coincidences. But they are the sort of coincidences that arouse suspicion.—“ New Zealand Tablet.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2512, 27 May 1909, Page 3
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175OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2512, 27 May 1909, Page 3
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