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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z Vol. 3, No. 5.

[Letter to Salient Vol.3, No.5 1940 from A. M. Isdale]

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Dear Salient,

Re "For Freshers Only". May one be permitted to add a few points for undergraduates in general?

1.Freedom of thought, as the first step to right action, since the world is infinitely complex, and only a person himself knows his own circumstances.
2.Tolerance, as the first necessity in making freedom of thought possible.
3.Humility, both because otherwise we so easily, consciously or subconsciously, influence the freedom of thought of others; and because opposition invites opposition, whereby we lose our own freedom.
4.Open-mindedness, both to that with which we are in sympathy and otherwise.
5.Judgment, which implies a capacity for selection and discrimination among things, so that we may draw therefrom what best suits ourselves and our most harmonious relations with others, that we may neither encroach upon their freedom nor irritate them to encroach upon ours.
6.Sympathy, without which harmonious relations are impossible.
7.Love, which is active sympathy and makes our relations with others not only harmonious, but dynamically so, and hence fruitful, thus making for right, true and beautiful actions in ourselves and to all, as being the goal to which, it is taken, we strive.

A. M. Isdale