Item 04: G. O. Hawkins letters to his family, 2 January 1915-November 1917 - Page 134
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be an effigy for all he knows
Evidently he comes to that conclusion for soon he is eagerly busy snatching cones from the branches and after greedily eating the nuts letting the cones fall, quite careless of the noise they make.
An Australian Cooee from the card players gives me the cue that it is time to fall in for the return march.
So now I must leave the still pine wood and all the life that it might unfold, to once more take my place with those hundreds of men who by the high teaching and great advantages of civilization have learnt that there is nothing beautiful or worthy in nature nor sacred in life and very little worth [indecipherable] after except it be that each may satisfy his own selfish desires and be an [indecipherable] self complement creature respecting nothing not even itself.
This might read as rather an unkind judgment and indeed it may be so; for after all we can only judge correctly by considering quality and capacity. The two great factors