OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3491, 3 April 1912, Page 7

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

IN A CROWD. When a number of people are met together' their morality is much lower than when they aro apart. There is such a thing as co-operative guilt with limited liability.—Dr Ingle. FOUND OUT. To no conceivable social state is man inherently fitted; he is a creature of jealousy and suspicion, unstable, restless, inquisitive, aggressive. intractable, and of most subtle and nimble dishonesty.—Mr H. 0. Wells. IN THE PATH OF THE SUN. If a foreign boy goes abroad lie must in every case go into a foreign country among people who speak foreign tongues. You English boys may follow the sun round the world, and yet you find yourselves always mong your own people and at home. —Captain R< Muirhead Collins, R.N. YOU NEVER CAN TELL. It is stupid to say that you cannotmake people sober by Act of Parliament, for such treatment has never been tried.—Dr Hawkvard. BIASSED CHARITY. The clergy are not the right people to administer charity, for their charity must be tainted with a certain bias.—Canon Masterman. A HOME ARMY. What we ask for is a Home Defence Army properly equipped, armed, and trained. Wo do not say it is absolutely impossible to get the number of men required under the voluntary system, though we are pretty certain it is not possible, and events so far and statistics prove that this is so. But we do say that under a voluntary system it is impossible to give the training required for modern warfare, iwhich is of a far higher degree than was the case beforeAhe introduction of long-gauge rifles and smokeless powder.—Lord Roberts. LOOKING FORWARD. We have seen with pride and pleasure abundant evidence of the growing welfare of our Indian dominions and of the other parts of cur widespread realm which we have visited, and on our return to the heart of our Empire we look forward with renewed courage and confidence to its continued union and prosperity.—His Majesty King George., HOME RULE FOR INDIA. Although the various races in India may not be yet fully ripe for selfgovernment, it would be well that their political leaders should bear in mind that their alien rulers have for the greater part of a century, been persistently pursuing a course obviously tending to prepare India, for Home Rule and Home Rule for India. —Mr H. G- Keene. HOW THE POOR LIVE. The working classes live their lives amid every inducement which the struggle for existence could offer to be selfish, grasping, and envious.— Bishop of Southwark. THE CITIZEN'S DUTY. Every good citizen should take a practical and intelligent interest in the affairs of the community to which he belongs.—Rev. C. E. Charlesworth. THE VIRTUE OF THE AGE. Charity is the characteristic virtue of the age, not because all are alike in the practice of it, hut because all are alike in admitting that it ought to he practised.—Mr Arthur James. MODERN SLAVERY. To-day there is less personal liberty in large towns suffering under bylaws than- there was in the autocratic days of Henry VII.—Mr W-Claridge. LIKE A COAT. Language wears out like a coat, and just as a. man has to change his coat when it becomes threadbare a nation lias to change its language if its to produce a new literature. —Mr George Moore.