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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 10. September 20th, 1949
The Darkest Hour
The Darkest Hour
"Man differs from the beasts in that be is endowed with reason. The Greeks ft was who first understood its power, who first used it to explain the world, That to why I am proud to be a Greek.
"Man in his relations with nature, made immense progress, and ended, through the sole instrumentality of bis reason, by mastering it in large measure. In his relations with society, man has not achieved these heights. This latter causes him, nevertheless, far greater evil than those caused him by nature.
"Let us understand this apparent weakness of man. Forward, all of us, to a science of society that is just and Justly applied. That is what I hold to. Judge my mistakes, find what was true in my ideas. That is what I ask of you.
"Greetings to you all,
"C. Carambelas, 24/6/48."
"Through the sunset of hope,
Like the shapes of a dream,
What Paradise islands of glory gleam!
Beneath heaven's cope.
"Their shadows more clear float by—
The sound of ther oceans, the light of their sky,
The music and fragrance their solitudes breathe
Burst, like morning on dream or like heaven on death,
Through the waits of our prison;
And Greece, which was dead, is arisen!!'—C.B.