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Original paragraph in
Wanganui Herald - Saturday, June 1, 1895
Wanganui Herald - Saturday, June 1, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
Colonist - Friday, June 7, 1895
Colonist - Friday, June 7, 1895
Difference
The Oscar Wilde scandal is a delicate subject for a newspaper to comment upon, but the Otago Times has managed to do it neatly. Dealing
with the subject of base vices historically, it is shown that great wealth accumulations and the aggregation of wealthy people in cities has always tended
to produce immorality. From consideration of the past and present this lesson is drawn for the guidance of the future: "That the labor of life, the work
and struggle, the anxiety and the worry which men and women are so apt to dread, are, after all, the great tonics of mind and body that preserve the human
being against a descent in the moral scale. So that the parent who works and struggles that his children may live in idleness and luxury may be at one and
the same time sowing the seeds of their destruction and assisting in the degeneration of the race."
The Oscar Wilde scandal is a delicate subject for a newspaper to comment upon, but the Otago 'Times' has managed to do it neatly.
Dealing with the subject of base vices historically, it is shown that great accumulations and the agregation of wealthy people in cities has always tended
to produce immorality. From consideration of the past and present this lesson is drawn for the guidance of the future:—"That the labor of life, the work
and struggle, the anxiety and worry which men and women are so apt to dread, are, after all, the great tonics of mind and body that preserve the human
being against a descent in the moral scale. So that the parent who works and struggles that his children may live in idleness and luxury may be at one and
the same time sowing the seeds of their destruction and assisting in the degeneration of the race."