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A new Royal Warrant provides that MAURICE HEWLETT'S ́TESTI-
the rates of pay for European officers
and 325 of 1919.
- MONY TO QUAKERS.
THE LOSS OF H.M.S AUDACIOUS:
Way THE NEWS WAS W.THEILD.
and other ranks serving with the Hongkong-Singapore Royal Garrison
In cur late scramble to spend our Artillery, or on the West Coast of own or secure some other body's Africa, shall be as laid down. For the money, a message of beauty, disthe following extract from Rear Particular interest will attach to appropriate arms in Army Orders 324, tinction and serene confidence in Admiral Sir Douglas Brownrigg's Officers and Euro- its own truth has been overlooked by the Chief Naval Censor) book "In pean non-commissioned officers of the "this distracted world. There is little discretions of the Naval Censor" a Regular Army serving with the Sierra wonder. As well might a black-bird fascinating book just published by Leone Company of Artillery, the West dute on Margate sands on a Bank Messrs. Casselt and Co. (price 12s India Regiment, the West African Holiday as this Quaker message 6d). Regiment, and such European officers "To all men" breathe love and and other ranks.serving on the West goodwill among them just now. The Coast of Africa and administered by effect has been much the same: to those who heeded it, matter for tears within our hearing but out of our grasp to the ravenous and the rabid, a mere foolishness.
[EXTRACT.]
Falkland Islands the House of Com
"Shortly after the Battle of the
the Army Council, will draw coast pay that such heavenly balm should be mons was going to adjourn till mid-
at the following rates white serving on
the West Coast, of Africa:
ant
January and Mr. Churchill made up his mind to go down to the House and make a statement as to the loss
Commandant. West African Regt.. Lieut. Colonel 125; General Staff Officer, Second Grade, Deputy-Assist has been put forward by any Church To my mind nothing so admirable Adjutant, and Quartermaster calling itself Christian throughout General Major, 9s. Captain, 75. five years horror and delirium. I 6d. Aide-de-Camp. Lieutenant, 65. must not Second Lieutenant. 5s: Regimenta! Boast" or
expect the "Morning "Long Bow" to agree Sergeant-Major, 35. 9d.; Regimental with it, but I am inclined to ask my The support which Professor Strong Quartermaster-Sergeant, Js. Com fellow citizens if they have not yet finds in evolution for his opposition: Pany Sergeant-Major, Company Quar- had enough of those evangelists of
28. 34 Ser-war and ill will towards men. to dualism, materialism and idealism master-Sergeant.. WHAT SUBSTANCE 15 17 MADE OF? is rather a battress to his theory than Kant, Is. 9d; Lance-Sergeant, 19. they have, here is an alternative for
pits foundation Blis main effort is: Corporal, ts. 3d Lance-Co- them to try. to show by psychological analysis that Pora, Is.: Private. 98..
"We appeal to all men," say the No coast pay is issuable to the Quakers to the world, to recognize our perceptions and feelings are a General Officer Commanding on the the great spiritual force of love could I induce anybody to agree with | aggregate of many separate parts. West Coast.
which is found in all, and which spatially related and therefore în a sense material, and that on the other commissioned officers of the Hong-It is a hard saying, as things now The European officers and non-makes us one common brotherhood."
object is the report of an adjustment
INTERESTING THEORY.
As there are "ports poets, so
there are philosophers" philosuchers,
Professor Strong The Origin v Consciousness.” which, in u way, is
If
though the nation generally knew of the battleship Audacious which- nothing about it had been sunk in a German minefield off the north coast of Ireland on October 27, 1914. But just as he was about to..go out of the Admiralty door he was tackled by Lord Fisher, who cajoled and threatened and browbeat him to such an extent that be (the First Lerd) allowed himself to be turned away from this intended course, and he remained silent on this point; and at no subsequent date me that we might as well let the matter out, since it was in secret de Polichinelk, and even if we were things happened so fast that the incident would soon be forgotten..
There is no doubt that the con-
and among these must be numbered hand what we call cognition of an kong-Singapore Royal Garrison Arrit. Lare; and yet, if it is true that 'tis abused for a day or so in the Press,
ship cost us the confidence of the public both here and abroad, and gave the Germans a useful bit of Propaganda to use against us, and confidence in our truth-telling capacity was not wholly restored until it thought that I did not agree with the Jutland battle. I would not have the suppression of the news for about a ediple of months, and indeed I a confident that the German Naval Staff must have been consider.
a New York paper giving a "block" ably puzzled as the actual truth, as I have in my possession now a copy of
or change in the organism. The argu-ery will draw additional pay as fol- love that makes the world go round, a sequel to the author's Why the ment from evolution is stated only lows: Major, 4s. 6d. Captain, 5s.that makes it stop. What stops trade?tinued suppression of the loss of that
it is certain by this time that 'tis hate Mind Flas a Body." is highly briefly and generally.
Against dual Lieutenant, 3s.
Lieutenant actually English hate Germans, Germans hate technically willully obscure or ism Prolesser Strong urges that, since command of a company during the English: masters grudge men, men artificially difficult, bur presupposing the development of mind has in the absence of the Captain beyond the masters. What holds up Ireland in the deader a thorough: acquaint course of evolution run parallel to the period of leave laid down for staff Protestants hate Catholics, Catholics ance with metaphysical and psycho development of the brain, we have a officers, on when there is no Captain, Protestants; each hales England, and logical and logical theory of the past right to suppose that mind also is the attached to the local companies at the England hates both. The infernal and the present. Oddly enough, product of evolution and not an in stations. 5s. Adjutant, in addition to braw of 1914 has poisoned the tissues considering the title, it has nothing stantaneous creation out of nothingMajor, Is.: Company Quartermaster keep us all in a sick ferment. What the above. 2s. 6d. Company Sergt. of humanity; proud flesh, sour blood, whatever to do with biology The Body and mind cannot be fundament- Kure's chica is not to trace the ally different, eise mind...could not Sergeant. 6d. Sergeant, acting as will save us Who will show us any devolopment of mind in the race, bur have evolved, as it apparently did,
assistant instructor in gunnery, is good? Tuter to furnish д logical and from matter
If mind evolved, that Sergeant employed with the local
THE PROFOUND NEED. psychological analysis of mental pro- From which it evolved must further company at Mauritius. 6d. An officer cesses which will make clear the moce, be of the same nature as itself; Garrison Antillery play draw, in addi- of selfishness and materialism shines
of the Hongkong-Singapore Royal
One thing only, say the Quakers reladon between mind and budy, we cannot point to the place in evolu
Listen "Through the dark cloud Biology is called in, nor to provide mon where consciousness arises-it ittion a language allowance not ex- the eternal Night of Christ in man. picture of the Audacious as she the Mets from which his conclusion is there at all, it must in, some fashionceeding 3s. a day if he has passed a It can never perish.. is drawn, but only in the contention
qualifying examination in Hindustani. thar, granted, the general principle of
and proved that he has a good con- evolution, his own theory of that
versational knowledge of the language. relation may be deduced from it.
.....
have been there from the beginning.
found need
The pro appeared when she rejoined the our time is to realizeGrand Fleet, and describing in detail But this insistence on the psychic
the everlasting truth of the com- the work done on the vessel during nature of reality does not mean that
mon Fatherhood of God-the Spirit the time she was in dock in Belfast, consciousness is more Fundamentally
In any case where the rates and of Love and the oneness of the when day and night shifts were, it This theory of pan-psychism as real than matter. External objects
conditions hitherto in force are more human
race." I wondered on was stated, working on her. a definition of scality (though; of are real proposition which very lavourable than those provided for Christmas Day, when children were "The story was so circumstantial course. with very different psycholo few are willing to deny. The con-
under this warrant, an officer or sol- carolling "Peace on earth and as to convince anybody of its truth, gical trappings) harks back at least moversy arises with the question: dier who was serving on the West mercy mild for how many hun-and think that the German Naval Spinoza, with his one substurze. Of what nature is that reality? Coast of Africa on Sept. 13, 1919. or dred years men had been hearing Staff must have been very hard put of which thought and extension are Even the professed skeptic acts as it who was on leave on that date, on com that, how many of them had said te it to decide whether the ship was aste butes. In fitcir quest of the true the objects of perception are real pletion of a term of service on the that they believed it, and how many sunk or whether or not she had been nature of things, all the substance he acknowledges a certain compel West Coast, shall be entitled during had acted as if they did believe it. I actually raised. But I think, on the philosophers though they have varying quality about them even while his present term of service on the wondered if the editors of "Long whole, that we should have gain- ing rations of what substance is declaring them to be illusions. More Wes: Cosst, or during the authorised Bow" and the "Morning Boast" had ed if the First Lord had carried like-are, ag cud bai the point that over, he acts as it they were in char- period 57 leave, to continue to receive heard them, and what effect the out his intention. and given the though we are marooned, as Kant acter just what perception shows the benefits and emoluments hitherto words would have upon their next public the facts on the adjournment says. on par litle island of expert Perceptions have in the pragmatist's enjoyed until such time as on change aliens, or the value of machine guns and I believe the Commander-in- articles about the deportation of of Parliament, December, 1914: ence, experience as we have it givesdiction, "worked," they have proved of appointment, or cessation of leave, us unly the shadow on appearance themselves useful, and, they must. or an account of increment or promo- reality; back of these appearances. it they are to be biologically useful at tion, or abolition of special war cmal and physical. is something alt. reproduce at least the main rela-emuluments, the new rates and condi- which must be posited to account for tions of things.".
tions are more favourable. them and which can be inferred from them, but which can never itself he directly experienced. *
LAST OF THE EMDEN.
The German cruiser Emden, which provided so many thrills during the war, and anally surrendered to the Australian cruiser Sydney, was con- demned as a prize by Sir Henry
as strike-breakers..../
"We have used the words of Christ, but we have not acted upon them. We have called ourselves by His name, but we have not lived in His spirit" Those words should form part of any General Confession to be used in church, since the words used there now have lost their mean- ing. They are entirely true: since Christ died we have never acted upon His words, or attempted for six years at a time to "live in His spirit." How does one do it? The Quakers go on to tell us. "The Divine Seed
In other words, the original "mind-- stuff." since il is the stuff of which the external world as well as con- The world in which we live presents sciousness is composed, is not any an amazing paradox it is apparently inere like mind as we know it than divided in w parts, material andif like matter as we know it. The ac- psychical which have nothing in com curacy of sense perception has long non; you changes in the material been called in question: but Intros world so invariably follow upon and pection gives just as inadequate an are followed by changes in the meras account of the mind as perception Duke in the Prize Court. world that some sort of relatioa seems gives of matter. To this inadequacy The Konigsberg, another German is in all men. As men realize its to exist between them. If the differ both sides is Jue the apparently vessel that heiped to make history, Presence, and follow the light of ences are stressed, matter and mind conflicting attributes of the two realins and finally met her fate in the Rufigi Christ in their hearts, they enter are regarded as two irreconcilable and of reality. If matter has the central river in German East Africa, was upon the right way of life, and re equally fundamental realities, disput-characteristic
ceive power to overcome evit by of consciousness, is also condemned. ing the field of the universe between psychic (since on no other supposi-
A decree for the confiscation and good. Thus will be built the City them. This dualistic hypothesis is tion could consciousness have de- delivery to the Crown of the German
of God." the first to be rejected by Professor veloped from it, mind also has the steamship Somali was also made. Seung.
He also denies that, on the central characteristic of matter, is The Somali was in company with one hand, matter is merely one of the spatial. If this is difficult to con-
the Konigsberg in October, 1914, at
HOW NOT TO BUILD. While it is plain, then, how the
Chief of the Grand Firet would have agreed, for he had suggested sup- pression only until the conditions ex isting at the period of the disaster had ceased to operate.
It was not without some enjoy. ment that I got my way, a day or two after, the armistice was signed, and I had my tongue in my cheek as I drew up the Admiralty com manique announcing the vessel's loss some four years before !
ANCIENT LITERARY
CRITICS.
To the students of journalism {d pioma course) at the University of London Mr. W. L. Courtney delivered a lecture recently on some of the literary critics of the ancient world. He selected Aristotle and Longinus valuable for modern students in their treatment of questions ill debated by aesthetic philosophrs.
ways in which consciousness expresses ceive, it irons counter to the testi. the time the Kunigsberg entered City of God will be rebuilt on certh, for special study; as being the most j
itself, on the other hand, that con- mony of imrespection, so much the sciorances is only a form of physico- worse for introspection. chemical energy. Both are cqually real, be warsins, and yet deir differ ence is muly, apparent, for both are phases of a third form of reality funda.
ental to them both.
it ought to be equally so how it will the Rufigi river. Both were driven not be built. Lately another Message
river by gunfire from
has been advertised in the Press
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one
For that of his Majesty's ships. The Somali which does not promise any help. It Such problems as the nature of rater, physical emison is no more apparent to perception than psychic July, 1915, when the Konigsberg was letters of the German ex Emperor was set on fire by the Germans in is proposed to publish certain private atonism apparent to introspection. destroyed. She was seized and
Introspection gives so inaccurate salved, and, the Crown claimed that which, we learn, incriminate him still more deeply in the original sin of
as they call it, for somebody; bu: wills" scoops," I suppose, the City of God has little to do.
And apart from the supposition
tragic here, the conditions on which tragedy, the character of a sublimity depends in dramatic poetry. ness in verse and prose, and the end and what we mean by high serious- of art were illustrated from different points of view, modern as well as ancient; and special attention was paid to the delineation of a critic
ar, account of the true nature, of mind the vessel, or her wreck, was liable war. Here, no doubt, is a "scoop," The psychologist Tichenor has said because we are conscious of only atto confiscation. An order for delivery that mental processes and their at fragment of the total psychic state, to the Crown was necessary because tendant nervous changes (for it is in WC are conscious of certain feckings she was lying at an extremely in the apparen connections of some es elemental, as qualitatively dier-accessible spot not within the jurisdic-; suit between our wwn inental and ent. just as we perceive colours as tion of any local Prize Court.. physical state that the problem presses qualitatively different. But in the one Mr. Boustead, dealing with the that the man in about to be tried for his 'qualifications, his mental equip. hut different ways of use as in the other the apparent difer- UC5, said this submarine appeared his offences against society at largement, and the pitfalls he has to avoid. viewing the same process, analogous ence is due to the number and ar- to have been sunk and afterwards in which case it is a flouting of The difference made by the rise of the inside and the outside of a rangement of unfelt parts which salved and brought to port in the justice to publish evidence against the romantic movement in literature hollow sphcic: of course, the ques-inspection is unable to detect, custody of the Admiralty. He ap-him in a newspaper beforehand and the contrast between classica tion, at once mises: And what is "The quality attaching to the psychic plied for condemnation, and an order the sphere itself?" "Mind stuff."State is only a vague impression of the was made.
Hardest de
answers Professor Sureng-mind stuff number and arrangement of complica-. which is not constinusness, but psy- tion of the minute parts
and romantic ideals formed the main topic of the lecture, which also dealt with the old Greek fallacy that art was the imitation of reality." Sir Sidey Lee made some interesting observalins at the close.
apart from all that, how in God's name is His city, to be rebuilt by raking in waste-heaps for more hate- stuff? The wretched man is beaten, chic substance of which consciousness This means. of course, that there; ess is ang form of mind-stuff, which, abdicated, exiled, sick, probably out of his mind befever had one. is is one manifestation. But although is no urity of self, but bnly an aggre- though not in itself conscious, is pre- psychic in nature, it is composed of gation of particles of mind-stuff. This seat in all matter if it is to be Capitan English habit to revile the fallen atomis spatially related--which brings pluralistic view is upheld by the in-able of giving birth to mmd
Ore and impotent? It has not been su it within the familiar definition of cications of psycho-physical parallel arrangement of its particles we call proposes to enrich itself by making one that was not sound at heart
hitherto, and the newspaper, which Caller. In fact, it is" midway be- ism. The brain state, to which any matter; another arrangement we call most of us ashamed of our natin and tweez in nature. As well as tween matter and mind; that is, both given mental state corresponds is very consciousness. But matter is no less senses perception and introspection complex, indeed; if the correspon psychic than consciousness, and con-alty is doing us a bad service, and, their social quality, there is to be
hope itself worse. tell us about it truly," though neither dence is complete. the mental state Sciousness is no less spatial than But while such things go on, far hesitate to say that their Corpora
considered their political. I don't alone tells the whole truth. Both even if not felt as such) must also be matter. "To sum up the whole mat- from the City of God being rebuilt, tion holds in its grasp the salvation mental phenomena and material phen the sum of minute parts; must, thatter in two phrases: if the ego were the ruins of it will sink deeper into of the world through their Master vena-both feelings and objects is, be as complex as its physical cor-not psychic, nothing would ever be the morass, until we all go down to a mine. 1 go further, and don't are appearance of something of which relate. Moreover, if the self were at given; and a psychic ego can come by the devil together. And if we are to hesitate to say that had the Quaker both the mind and the external world unity it could not have been the evolution only out of a psychic world." be as the Evangelists of illwill desire religion been this country's, not only are made. Introspection, so far from gradual product of evolution, but, Strong's theory of reality were us, the sooner that happens the bet should we not have made war, but giving us in its immediacy the key to being indivisible, must have sprung to stand or fall by the evolutionary ter. As an alternative to this dis-Gmany would not have provoked the structure of the universe, does not Into being all at once.
argument, it would be on rather gusting but deserved consummation, it. Had Europe at large been Quaker, give as the final trigh about our own Mind-stuff, then, is something quite shaky ground. For, as a matter of I have called attention to the Quaker war would have been eliminated long mental states. For introspection can different from conselousness. It has lact, evolutionary changes are as often Elenicon.
ago from the catalogue of national, only catch the feeling moment by its not always the functions of cognition cataclysmic as gradual, and widely TF EUROPE HAD BEEN QUAKER. crimes; for lo a Quaker war is what vanishing tail. What it gives us is and will, any more than maner always divergent forms do spring into being I love and respect the Quakers cannibaliam is to all men, and love hot a view of the existing situation, as the peculiar characteristics of all of a piece and all at once, and as-Christians after the doctrine of apparently, to some men, as unthink but a description from memacy of a brain. As the brain is one particular unified sell might conceivably be such Christ. I have known many, and able offence against the sanctity of state which has already ceased to be. Arrangement of matter so conscious mutation.
never a bad one among them, never the body.
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