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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Personal Volume
True Brotherhood
True Brotherhood.
'We are part of an Infinite Scheme,
All we that are;
Man the high crest and crown of things that be.
The fiery-hearted earth, the cold unfathomed sea,
The central, sun the intermittent star.
Things great; and small,
We are but parts of the Eternal All;
We live not in a barren, baseless dream;
page 15No endless, ineffectual chain
Of chance successions launched in vain,
But every beat of Time,
Each sun that shines or falls to shine.
Each animate life that comes to throb or cease,
Each life of herb or tree
Which springs aloft and then has ceased to be
Each change of strife and peace.
Each soaring thought sublime,
Each deed of wrong and blood.
Each impulse towards an unattained good,—
All with a sure, unfaltering working tend
To one Ineffable. Beatific End.'
"If we do, then we will be inspired to go forward scattering seeds of knowledge, and seeds of kindness by the way, and working all we can in the service of man to hasten the day when, as Thomas Paine pictured, we should see countries in the world of which it could be said: 'My poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive: the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness.' When that day arrives true Brotherhood will be seen in operation; for Love will have conquered Hate, and Kindness will huve banished Force. The vision will have been realised. The millennium has come for 'all men's good.' has become 'each man's rule, and Universal Peace
"Lies like a shaft of light across the land,
"And like a lane of beams athwart the sea."
"My vision was of shadows thrown before
Coming events things that shall surely be
Nor now delayed, but until man, no more
Wholly on blinding last intent shall see—
That his own interest and his kind's are one
Blended in individual destiny.' "
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"N.Z. Times" Co., Ltd.. Print.