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man must overcome the limita
tions of nationalism or our pre- sent civilisation will destroy it- elf, as civilisation has often
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states of Greece, then in the com- bination of the two through the discovery of the representative (system in Christian England, in (Plantagenet days, and finally in the invention of the federal sys- tem by the Fathers of the Ameri- can Constitution which enabled a responsible
to include
wealth tale Common-
Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 15, 1938. an area as large as Europe, for- ty-eight "state" commonwealths and 130,000,000 people.
CHURCH DOCTRINE
of
To-day, however, Mr. Curtis contends, it is impossible for the One quite certain effect of the Christian to be content with the Report of the Commission ap-national state and modern inven- pointed fifteen years ago to con- tions make it possible for him to For the national sider. Christian doctrine as view-transcend it.
the citizen ed by the Church of England will state implies that be to sharpen the cleavage be-loves and owes a duty to all his tween the Church of England fellow citizens but not to his fel- and the Church of Rome. Suf-low men who are members ficient for that are the challenges other and rival commonwealths. to the evidence for the Virgin The international world is there Birth and to literalistic belief in fore a world ruled not by love but the Resurrection. Whether it by indifference, fear or hatred. will serve its avowed purpose, in The time has therefore come extent of when, if the precepts of the demonstrating the agreement within the Anglican Founder of Christianity are to be Church and showing how far obeyed, the national common- give way to differences can be removed, is a wealth must
international ΟΙ world matter much less easy to judge, the and verdicts generally will be re-commonwealth through which alone the citizen can manifest his served until more detailed re
unity with and discharge his sumes, or the full Report, made available. Much
are
scurantism about religio ob [duty of loving all his fellow men
has as himself.
clearly received a death-blow, and the finding that educated Chris- tians agree that much in the Bi- ble is of mythological origin.
having symbolic and not historic A Two-Fisted Mouse
A mouse has threatened
A
value, will remove a burden from many mînds, even if it fails com- pletely to lift these matters out foundation of a modern state of the realm of controversy.
the
a very special mouse, to be sure, These are days, however, when but still a mouse. Yugoslavia has recognition of the value of the deported Mickey Mouse because work of the Commission is likely of his subversive antics in the it to be slighter than might be so newspaper Politica. Mickey, were world conditions happier appears, was getting involved and calmer. For there
in
isa affairs of state, and his Pestrit
growing .... conviction in many ity was driving his comic minds that Christian (or reli- foes to cabals, juntas and other gious) thought can no longer be revolutionary devices. Yugosla- divorced from political thought. vian censors began to see Mickey Mr. Lionel Curtis, in his short as ~a one-mouse revolution dis- third volume of Civitas Dei, just seminating dangerous ideas. No published by MacMillan in Lon-word has been received to indi- don, has recently made a cate whether or not Donald Duck, real contribution to the thinking Pluto and Horace Horsecollar of out time on this thesis. - It is have also been exiled as bomb- one of his main contentions that throwing plotters.
the Church should get away Mickey, with such press no- from anxiety about doctrine and tices as these, may transform the To doctrine, work on the principle world's concept of a mouse,
Bug that the essence of the teaching be mouselike may come to of Jesus of Nazareth was "Love gest ferociousness and the cour- Thy Neighbour As Thyself", and age of a lion. The Yugoslavian that the full Christian message censor may have “turned earth's is necessarily concerned not only surface rough" for Mickey, but with the problems of the indivi-not even a Hollywood mouse can dual but with the political and expect Green Pastures and Par- economic institutions of society; mesan Fields all the time. Mie for the reason that the individual key has demonstrated that cannot grow to his full moral or mouse can cast a shadow as large spiritual stature except as a citi-as an elephant.. But he has re- zen of a free commonwealth in tained at least one tradition – of which he is abl to share the res the mouse he has more than
aming and en ponsibility for
ole to his abode, and if Yu- one of them, there fording the law which vern
98 Society and for seeing that the
hous ideamore where he laws really promote the well-be
un no risk of deportation ling of everybody.
grounds of subversive ac
His third and most original