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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 21, No. 1. March 13, 1958

Regression

Regression

On the whole the changes that have taken place seem to me to mark a regression rather than progress. (You will note that there is nothing "objective" about this.) In the 'thirties everything was dominated by concern for human suffering and by the belief that human effort, and particularly the better organizing of society, offered the most effective remedy. The severe setbacks that this viewpoint sustained in the next two decades have had the result that it has been largely abandoned in favour of the view that our only hope lies with either a supernatural power or some scientific legerdemain.