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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 7. June 16, 1955

"Creative Minorities"

"Creative Minorities"

Professor Arnold Toynbee, who has examined in detail the [unclear: rise] end fall of the 20 civilisations of which we have historical knowledge, says that a declining civillisation can only be saved by the growth within it of a creative minority. Christians today have the opportunity of being such a creative minority. If our Western civilisation is to he saved it must be through the radical transformation of our machine society. Christians must work, there fore, for the reduction and elimination of its harsh and callous brutalities.

Christians, in the realm of leisure, must work for better cultural and athletic facilities, so that the human personality of every man may be fully developed.

But above everything else, Christians must proclaim the fact that God in Christ is able to deliver us from the paralysing sense that we are mere ants in an antheap. That is, they must proclaim that God calls us from life in the mass to a living, personal fellowship with Himself.