Message of Anzac.

Only a few days ago we bowed our heads in solemn mourning for the multitude of heroes who died for a cause they thought to be both just and righteous. Their death is a monument to he high courage and gallantry that still lives in the hearts of men, and, alas, a terrible monument, too, to the most ghastly blunder of civilisation—that the peoples of the Western world have dared build for themselves a civilisation so largely based upon applied science as this one is and yet let their minds be still so much filled with prescientific ideas.

War and its horrors in the world to-day are the monsters born of science and conceived by ignorance. We are in a world that is vaster, wider and more complex than ever was the case in the past, Already to every man the machine has given the service of a legion of slaves. And so every man has a responsibility to society far greater than ever before. Then, if this be so, he must seek to understand the forces that he can loose upon earth and the might of the slaves he can command.

Let therefore the sacrifice of Anzac bring for us this message: that since we of the Western world must so largely live by the fruits of science, our minds may become such that not only are we prepared to accept scientific inventions, but if our civilisation is to be saved we must learn to think scientific ideas and develop a scientific outlook.

We have built a mighty machine to provide for the growing needs of mankind, but we must take care that we control its might, lest it become our master and devour us in its soulless fury.