SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929.
OUR WEEKLY SERMON
Is A Philosophy Of History Possible ?
MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS
[By Professor A. S. Pringle-Pattison, LL.D., D.C.L., F.B.A.]
(Continued from July 13.)
In this modest empirical form, if we take long enough periods into consideration, think we may probably all agree that
the melioristic theory has much to say for itself, But, in such a state- ment, nothing is said of the rela tion of human progress
to any divine purpose. Religion, and Christianity in particular, was by the French thinkers of the eighteenth century regarded main-
THE CHINA
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MONEY FOR A JOB? ROUND THE CINEMAS
CHARGE AGAINST A CHINESE SALESMAN.
EVIDENCE PART HEARD
VICTOR MCLAGLEN AS A BASHFUL ROMEO
"STRONG BOY"
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED
My s
for
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
After some evidence had been taken According to advance reports, no WANTED. — Immediately yesterday, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith gave better story than "Strong Boy" months, expert Lady Stenographer. an adjournment until Saturday next could have been selected by Fox Apply Secretory, PO Box 22, 2 in the caac in which a Chinese sales-Films to abet Vietor McLaglen in man employed in a tailor's shop was making inroads into publie favour. alleged to have defrauded a seaman of
The photoplay comes to the Queen's by converting it to his own use, two sums of money amounting to $500, Theatre to-morrow, and is said to competed by for the prosecution was whilst Mr. F. C. E. Rendall was for the defendant.
A Protest
The case for last word in comedy, The Undersigned have received
Mr. Rendall at the outset registered protest against what he termed "r regular conduct on the part of the rested on July 15, and was not brought Folice." His client, he said, was ar before the Court until July 18. ly as superstition, and as having first accused offered to settle by paying Sergeant Fitches explained that at been the greatest obstacle to $200 in cash and sign a promissory note progress in the past. They re-for $300. The matter was referred to garded humanity. therefore, as the Crown Solicitor's office whence in- progressing towards perfection instructions were given for accused to be its own strength as soon as it had charged. In the circumstances delay been delivered from that incubus, was anavoidable as time was neces- The 'perfectibility of man
sary to make arrangements. came the favourite axiom of the century, and it continued flourish during a great part of the to nineteenth.
be-
be the steward indeed bashful instructions to sell by Public Romeo, a railway luggage porter, Auction whose shyness in the presence of the weaker sex gets him into more than one trunkful of difficulties.
ON
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The fundamental defect of Au gustine's treatise is, of course, that it leaves out of account the whole secular side of life. Art, science, literature, philosophy, invention and the arts of life-all that we commonly mean by civilization-is relegated to a single section of a single chapter in his twenty-second Book. He perpetuates in theory the abrupt dualism, between the Church and the world-the apo- calyptic or purely other-worldly attitude of early Christianity, which the Church WES 80 soon forced to abandon in practice. There are those who assure us that this alone is genuine Christianity and that the history of Christian society is the history of a great evasion, an insincere and worthy compromise with a world whose sqcial arrangements and principles of action have proved too strong for the faith of the gospel.gress had, in fact, advanced to a lined by Mr. d'Almada was that ac- for the prosecution, as out- Essential Perversity
much more questionable position cused was known to the complainanta But we have only to follow out than that of Turgot. They con- They met early last month in Filkem such a contention to its logical ceived of progress consequences to recognize, not only with the necessity
as operating street, and as the result of complainant
saying that he was anemployed, accus nature, carrying the species auR. F. A. "Belgo)."
ed undertook to get him a job on the tomatically, as it were, to its goal.
At a subsequent meeting accused told called that on July 9 heroin valued *Progress," said Spencer, is not an complainant that the Chief Officer re-at Fra. 832,000 was discovered in accident but a necessity." certain that man must become per- ing gras arranged, at which complain- official in the Afghan Legation. in
It is quired $300 as security. A third meet the, personal baggage of a high Peninsula Hotel Dinner Dances, of the Ideal man is as certain as lowing day accused gave complainant
The ultimate development ant handed over the money. The fol- Paris).
the most implicit faith: for in- by the Chief Officer, and informed com any conclusion in which we place what purported to be a receipt signed stance, that all men die.'
its
un-
impracticability, but the essential perversity of the attitude which it commends. There is much, heaven knows, in what we call civilization that is a blat upon the earth and a disgrace to human kind-much both in its past his tory and in present conditions.
fect.
After further argument, the Magis- rate decided that the case must pro- ceed en a plea of "not guilty."
Case for Prosecution
The votarles of pro- The cas
of a law of
The World-Spirit
to
plainant that the Chief Officer wanted another $200. This money was later another receipt. handed over to accused and he gave
PARIS SENSATION
Paris. Yesterday "tremendously rich Russian The "nigger in the woodpile" is named Raskine," according to the Matin, in chronicling the result of its investigations into the recent heroin mystery. (It will be re-
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, July 19, 1929.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
nog de alana embrages
Set Vide Stan COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN "CHINA MAIL"
Social Functions To-day-Hong Kong Hotel and 8.30 p.m.
Entertainments
To-day- World To-day Queen's Theatre; Excess Baggage."
Theatre; Resurrection." Steamboat Bill Jr."
Zo-day' Star Theatre;
To-day Majestic Theatre; em-"Ramona."
The journal says that Raskine, bought the heroin for export to who is an extensive traveller,
transit, and he conspired with an Bombay. Complications arose in employee of the Afghan Legation to Accused then arranged with the com- obtain diplomatic immunity for the plainant to meet him at 8 pm, out- consignment, for which the side the Naval Yard gate to go and ployee received three million interview the Chief Officer. Accused | francs.
Lammert's Auctions never kept the appointment. Next day Later, Raskine disappeared with Central, office furniture, 2.30 p.m.
July 22-At 26, Des Voeux Road complainant went to accused's house out paying the factory in the Haut-
July 22-At 10, Carnavon Bldg., moved away.
chased the heroin under perfectly legal conditions-Reuter
example of a high public spirit advance in human history with in Pilkem-street and found that he had Rhin province, from which he purKowloon, household furniture, 11
But the fullest recognition of cry ing evils and patent defects need not blind us to the greatness and the wonder of the fabric reared by the nameless generations of the
But if these French and Bri- past. Think, for example, of the
tish philosophers have place great system of law bequeathed to for God in their theory, other the modern world by Roman thinkers, like Hegel (who also jurists working on centuries of looks on progress as necessary), national experience. The idea of identify, or appear to identify, the sn ordered civil polity and the successive stages of this necessary were bequests so precious that the process of the divine life it- Dante, reading Roman history as self. The World-spirit, say the development of the idea of Hegel in a well-known passage of Justice,
in that the Phaenomenology, in which he history the evolution of a pro- looks back upon his own survey vidential purpose for man's secular of the successive phases of human life, as real and as clearly marked history, has had the patience to as the parallel development trace-
traverse these forms in the long able in sacred history. The civic stretch of time, and to take upon virtues of the secular state have itself the prodigious labour of the their divine sanction as truly as world's history.. because by the spiritual graces which are the nothing less could it attain to a pledge of man's higher destiny. consciousness of its own rature. Hegel's term, the Weltgeist, is ambiguous, and his own personal position may be to some extent He was too good a
to came
see
in doubt.
Complainant then got a friend to write a letter to the Chief Officer of the "Belgol" about the $500. The re- sult was that the matter was placed in the hands of the Police and accused was arrested at his brother's house iz Kowloon City.
A LABOUR RALLY
ALLEGED BREACH OF LEASE AT DUDLEY CASTLE
London, July 4. The holding of a Izbour Party de-
July 24-At Sales Room, Duddell Street, a quantity of miscellaneous goods, 11a.m.
IN OTHER PLACES
CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA
The death occurred on June 25
The Evidence Witnesses included Mr. William MyEvor, Chief Officer of the "Belgol,” who said that he did not know tife ac- money from him or discussed with him monstration in the grounds of Dudley of the Rev. Father F. V. Bechet, cused and had never received any the prospects of employing anyone on Castle to celebrate the election of Mr. who had been attached to the the ship. The first he knew of the $500 Oliver Baldwin, has brought & swift Roman Catholic mission in Slam was when he received the letter sent protest, by the complainant The two receipts produced were not signed by him.
philosopher to take the time- Replying to Mr. Rendall Mr. McEvored breach of the terms of the lease.
process as the ultimate reality and to interpret that process as the gradual growth of something out of nothing. Many
said that the engaging of men on the ship was done the Captain.
The Earl of Dudley has issued a writ against the Borough Council for alleg Viscount Ednam, the Eart's eldest son, Interviewed, said that the Socialist de the President of the total Conservative monstration was an insult to him as
He said that the Castle and grounds
said that accused had often been on The Chinese cook of the "Belgol" passages board.. He recognised the paper used Association. might be quoted in which he in- for the receipt at paper need on board sists, in Aristotelian fashion, that but could not say if accused had taken were handed over to the Corporation at what is last in order of time, the any. Accused came on board in his a nominal rent, on condition that the end of the process, is really first, capacity as salesman for the tailor, to public were allowed free access to the because it is the presupposition get orders.
park, yet it had been lent to the La
which the case was adjourned.
Bail was fixed in the sum of $500.
MONEY LEFT
SOME DETAILS OF LOCAL
ESTATES...
AMANULLAH
for over 25 years.
Communist posters and slogans found on Mokanshan Road, Shang- hai, recently, urged labourers to the death of the victims of the May awaken and to be ready to avenge
80 Incident..
Department F.M.S., and the captain Mr. P. K. Nerman; of the Survey of the Perak Rugby Fifteen, and Dr. E. A Struthers, Health Officer, Lower Ferak will probably leave for Home this month;
The offices of the National: Sal- vation Association, successor to the Shanghai Anti-Japanese Associa tion, were removed from the Tem- ple of the Queen of Heaven to the offices of the Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in North Honan Road.
Man Made for World As Dean Church put it, God has made man for this world, as well aa intended him for another." However true it may be that this life is a preparation for another, man has his part to play in this world under the natural conditions which govern life here. And it is only fair to recognize that this legitimation of the secular life, its reclamation from the kingdom of the devil, forms part of the Authoritative teaching of the Catholic Church, since its exposi- of the whole development But Chan Chue, the complainant, then bour Party, which not only charged tion by Thomas Aquinas, though there can be no doubt as to the gave evidence bearing out Mr. admission, but excluded the general the old Augustinian view still tends position of many of his ablest fol-d'Almada's opening statement, after public. to reappear and to colour popular lowers, who frankly identified the theology, and in every generation Absolute with the process of men are born, whose best hope for human history. And as regards the world is that its end is at hand, Hegel himself, the awkward fact Impatient of the stars that remains that the end or goal
LEFT AFGHANISTAN WITH keep their course
reached in human history at the And make no pathway for the opening of the ineteenth century
ONLY £6 coming Judge.
appears to be accepted by him as This narrowly theological view an exhaustive expression of the
London, July 3. Net personal estate in England remained
Interviewed at Port Said, ex- largely in evidence total nature of God. This is amounting to £8,722 and local estate King Amanullah stated that he throughout the Middle Ages. It natural if we identify the Abso- amounting to $46,800 were left by Mrs. would remain in Italy for a year class was arrested by the Chapei
A young Chinese of the student- was only after the Renaissance lute with the subject underlying Fanny, Isabel Layard, formerly of after which he hoped to return to police in Chow Ching Chu Road, that the legitimation of the secular development, for in that case we Honolulu, and late of Camden Grover Afghanistan as a private indivi- near the International Settlement was firmly established. Bodin, are of course unable to rise higher 22, 1928, and was the wife of dual, his ambition being to become boundary (Shanghai), for dis- whose book appeared in 1566, is than man's actual achievement at Raymond de Burgh Money Layard, a farmer. He denied that he hadtributing pamphlets of a very in- usually mentioned as the first to the time the philosopher wrote. give a sketch-map of universal his- The New Idealism
H.B.M. Consul at Honolulu,
lat Honolulu.ghanistan, declaring that he left ed over to the Bureau of Public any treasure from Afflammatory nature. He was hand- tory which is optimistic as to Hegel is in some respects an old Mr. Julio Cecilio de Sonza Botelho, with £6, and abandoned even his Safety human progress and makes no re-story, but, as Dean Inge has re- who lived at 339, Nathan-road, Kow-clothes. and ference to an end of the world. minded us, one of the most active loon, and died intestate on January 18 The ex-King wept profusely, and Infancy of Human Reason philosophical movements of the this year, left property worth $1,600. the members of his party all look The Abbe de Saint Pierre, writing present day, the New Idealism of in 1757 on The Continuous Pro- Croce and Gentile, nourished
ed dejected. gress of Universal Reason, was the chiefly on Hegel, whose influence oph, late of Tientsin, who died on first to speak of the race as being in Italy has always been consider January 10 last year, left property still only "in the infancy of human able, makes it its chief boast to worthy $250,700 ft the Colony. reason," and to talk of its destinies have discarded the residuum of Chiu Po-king, late of Fatshan, who a hundred thousand years ahead. transcendency which it detects in died in July last year, lett estate în And he thinks of progress as con- his teaching. These thinkers the Colony worth $91,200 sisting of advance not merely in would banish the very expression **** the physical sciences, but also in 'philosophy of history on the Wong. Tat-foo, retired merchant, fate the aciences of ethics and politics, ground that it perpetuates the of 24, Conduit road, who died in March which are still more important, he transcendent conception of the last at the age of 30, left local catate Chamber to suspend sittings until ANNIVERSARY WREATHS IN holds, for the happiness of man real The philosophy of history worth $57,300. kiad. In thus linking the idea of is dead, Croce assures us, and he progressive enlightenment with
Kensington. She died on November
Wa Mow-ting, known as Wu Jim-
Four amall Chinese newspapers and other publications have been listed as pro Communist by the Chief of the Civil Administrat Department of the Kla
FRENCH WAR DEBTS vincial Government. The Shan
Bureau of Public Safety Has re ceived an order to suspend the publications.
SITTINGS - SUSPENDED PAPA TEMPORARILY
Paris, Yesterday The Ministers intend to ask the
STAMFORD RAFFLES
"ör Tuesday, so as enable- LONDON & SINGAPORE MP caze who is still confined
Estate worth $10,000 was left by to his room to participate in the The memory of Sir Stamford
anger, finish of the Debts Debate. Reu Raffles, founder of Singapore,
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