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A WORLD STATE.
IS ONE POSSIBLE?
WILL MR. WELLS' DREAM COME
TRUE?
conceive that human nature, which has been shaped and fashioned through 50,000 years, can be trans- formed overnight. It is this factor which upsets Mr. Well conception, not of a League of Natious of which he despairs, "tor even a mere league of peoples, but of a world league of
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ALLEGED HIGH TREASON.
days ago ordered the arrest, with has The German Government a few
of high treason will be brought. The been effected, of a number of ex- naval officers, against whom charges case is a reimarkable one.
Chedworth Paine writes in a Home therhood through sorrow, sorrow for In the view of Mr. Wells, bro- paper: Is a World State possible? Will the next stage in history bring ble mutual injuries, is spreading and common sufferings and for irrepara into view
a federation of all increasing throughout the world.learned that an ex-naval Beutenant, Not long ago the naval authorities humanity P
The dominating fact is a new sanity." Can all the peoples of the world Has he found it so in Russia whence named Von Bercken, was engaged in be unified into one community of! he is just retúrning?
suspicious transactions with foreig knowledge and will?"
There are four great flaws in the ners. He was shadowed, and it was These are the questions I asked: Dream State of Mr. Wells, which found that he had a number of con closing sections of "The Outline of ration of Mankind within a period as secrets to foreign Powers myself as I finished reading the render impossible any General Fede federates, the objects of the gang being to sell German submarine History," that spacious literary enter- far as the human imagination can prise just completed by Mr. H. G. carry us,
Somehow or other, Von Bercken Wells.
The first is that he utterly fails to and his comrades had become pos take into account the teeming millions sessed of numerous secret documents of Asia, or the immense masses of regarding boats and U-boat war- blacks in the tropical and sub-tropi negotiating to dispose of at a high fare, and it was these they were cal regions of Africa. The second is sure. Spanish and Japanese agents, that he glosses over or fignores the acute economic factors which may them. George Renwick in the Daily it is alleged, had been in touch with still overturn our present civilisation if they are not solved
On the cover of the last part i a coloured map of the eastern hems phere, labelled "The United States, of the World" and it set me wonder
ing.
The third is that the products of
Chronicle.
the word are insufficient to supply tian, which is as misguided as the the needs of the peoples of the world, old Chinese practice of elevating and that this condition is certain to mechanical literary attainments into continue for a very long period. The a-fetish. fourth is the conflict of religious beliefs, which is an insurmountable swarming with schoolmasters, so I do Just as I do not believe in a world bar to unity.
not believe in Mr Wells' pigmies and Esquimaux and Afghan Christianity nor Islam nor Buddhism Can there be unity between Congo world religion," which "will not be
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I picked up the little organ of the Palestine Zionists, and found therein an account of some sort of an attack by "many hundred Bedouins" on a railway train south of Damascus. They pillaged the train, and murdered various people in cold blood
"Ore must imazine," wrote a sur- vivor, "men with shaved heads, and hair hanging down at the sides of their gaunt faces, and wild staring eyes. and perhaps a blood stair of a half-baked body." He described how he sought refuge in the station Ishmaelites? Or can treaties com- nor any such specialised form of and entirely under new management. Cuflas under the personal supervision buildings, how the door was smashed pose the mutual hatreds of the Balkan religion, but religion itself, pure by rifle butts, and how "a savage of peoples, whose territories are a boil- and undefiled." Depend upon it the Hauran, his face covered with fith and blood, and in his eyes the of racial antipathies?
that such a religion would be no re Mr. Wells talks of "some equalisa-ligion at all. The masses of man- Just to continue the awful work." rushed ip,
tion of labour conditions," and of a kind will continue to demand and with others hot on his minimum standard of life through to seek inspiration from the visible beek "
Even now I do not quite know we, shall see an equalisation down
out the world." If that day dawns, flame upon the altar. what it was all about, yet this thing wards. The yellow races can always drawn from this remarkable work in No; we must seek the lesson to be happened only the other day, and underlive the white races, and will the story Mr. Wells unfolds, and not such things are happening daily in not be deterred from doing so by in its prophetic close. That lesson is many lands. But hearken! And any impulse to universal service." this world state," says the smooth
that, for very many ages, humanity prophetic voice of Mr. Wells," will be compass. Once he foresaw mankind nationalities, for ever flowering, for Mr. Wells has boxed the prophet's bas been composed of a cluster of sustained by a universal education, shut up in roofed cities with high ever dying, for ever being reborn. upon a scale and of a penetration walls, but now he summons us all to The nations will not merge, and for and quality beyond all present ex- a restless, nomadic life. Not so many ages to come there can be no escape perience."
years ago be declared that "those from what Flinders Petric calls the Again I wonder. Mr. Wells has written book of dirty white, and yellow people, tinction, which are the necessary fate swarms of black, and brown, and catastrophe, the decay and the ex brilliant and fascinating generalisa would have to go," that "it is, their of higher organisms of society." tions about history. He takes us for portion to die, out, and disappear."
Now be beckons them, to enter a ideals, we should take the League of Instead of dreaming of impossible the centuries, but when he leaves the universal brotherhood. This is the Nations as we find it, and seek to
a delightful seroplane fight across
philosopher turned teetotam.
past and speculates about the future he lapsse into an anti-climax. His
make it a real and living thing. His great panacea is education, Outline" closes with a series of and he foresees the day when 10 per though it may seem to-day, it con I hold that, small and limited vagne speculations of the kind with cent of the adult population will be tains the germ which he has already made
us schoolmasters. Machinery will do practical solution than the nebulous a truer and more familiar. Though we can respect our work, and we shall all spend our imaginings of Mr. Wells, It pre and admire their sanguine spirit, for time looking at diatoms through an supposes the continued existence of my part I find them unconvincing. oil immersion lens, which is what Mr. nationalities, and seeks, however imperfectly, to link them up the Common good, who we most civilised. States first for the
PREVALENT BELIEF,
Wells really means when be pictures Mr. Wells shares the prevalent be a beaves upon barth, Hef that the-bearts and minds of MISGUIDED SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION. men have undergone a profound and I believe, on the contrary, that we fundamental change during the last shall see a tremendous revolt against six years. I do not. I am unable to the present system of literary edaca
In that direction, if are bat seizu the opportunity, should lie "the stage of history.
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