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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 2 (May 1, 1934.)

Insight and Outlook

Insight and Outlook.

But life is as short as a borrower's memory and the years are as insistent as rent day or the ballyhoo of Big Ben putting the K.O. on the “heigho” in the cold grey dawn. Time tallies the ticks as they speed through the gates of experience, and there is no waiting—no delay.

Thus, there is time only to muse on the many manifestations of the wondrous work of the Cosmic Craftsman and, at most, to interpret the intricacies of one of his mechanical marvels.

So, some study the stellar stage for the secret of eternity, some search stones for sermons, some solicit the secrets of the System from creatures that crawl and creep; others tap the terrestrial tabernacle for fecund forces to harass and harness; some study the skulls of the past in an effort to explain the stupidity of the present—or, in other words, strive to solve the riddle of the Rumpus from the skulls of the “skedaddled.”

But the grated majority is so busy battling for butter to put over its bread or for bread to put under its butter, that its mental manoeuvres are dedicated to the study of wolves and how to keep them off the doorstep.