26, 1939.
VIVED
MORE THAN PREDICTION
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hich transla d, ror will be born Icost the Empire at whatever peo- iation with him a Prince than a
NFULFILLED t straight to the hets, like kings, time. The same esied that "Eng- re" would last ars. Happily he e exact starting
ago, wrote that a of Great Bri- itable that we he of the Great ld." As he was 2,000 A.D. in
us another 60
ut the Apocaly-
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ough to project- ad write "a re-
of the world's
THE BRITISH ARMY'S “HE-MEN”-Scores of additional in- structors from regular units are being trained under experts at the Army School of Physical Training at Aldershot. Physical exercises will form an important part of the training of the new Militiamen and the first batch of these instructors will be ready to deal with them next month. A striking angle picture of future Militia Phy- sical Training instructors during training at Aldershot.
often as that of the late Sick Man and Thor would swing his giant of Europe first styled so nearly hammer among the Gothic cathe- 400
years ago who since the drals. Even now his arm is raised War has entered upon so surpris- to strike. ing a convalescence.
England survived Shelburne's
No modern prediction has been more tragically fulfilled than Sir
he U.S.A. with atrabiliar prediction that if the Henry Maine's unheeded warning:|
000,000, omni- orld; Russia as perty and free- ed France, of benefactress of
?" asks an an-
Americans got their independence "then sun of
England would set and her glories be eclipsed for
ever? Yet he had seen how tran- sient was the eclipse of the glories of France caused by the loss of French Canada "a few acres of
snow."
appy," replies Virile nations recover swiftly
not disappear- from defeat if they set mind and ntis, but she will upon recovery: the victor may at her destiny soon sink into a slough of despond.
"Nationalism is full of the seeds of future civil convulsion." Na- tionalism is a disruptive force which impels great majorities in great States to aggression and tyranny and impels minorities to disobedience and rebellion.
studded with the dragon's teeth. principle of self-determination is
The
Yet Nationalism is an honour- able and inspiring principle, and the law of Self-Determination in itself is just and sound. But al- ways exceptis excipiendis. The extreme fervours of Nationalism. have helped to make Ruskin's say- being come true, "The sun will be
redder still.”
WHEN SOLACE IS MOCKED
fate of all ex-
THOR'S MENACING HAMMER peoples. Be- Heine's "Letters from Paris," then Carth written in the Thirties of last isa and Flor- century, contain some remarkable ice; last, the predictions. For example, e States have wrote in 1832: after shining "I do not believe that there will t of England be a German revolution very soon, her stage was still less a German Republic, and,
It is bad enough when a Major But her come what may, I shall never see Prophet feels compelled to predict and her fate the latter. But I am certain that recurrent Days of Wrath, but when we have long decayed in our when such soothing words as he ne saw Eng- graves there will be strife in. Ger- adds by way of solace and encour- atorial state, many with word and sword, for
are agement for her past the Republic is an idea, and Ger- mockery, it is hard indeed. Charles to cruel
lusively mer- mans never yet abandoned an idea
her colonies till they had fought it out to its Pearson, whose "National Life and irst of all last consequences.
gnanimously That still waits fulfilment for Spain; Dr. the Weimar R public had fair Gayda often trial but another German pro- tions on the phecy of Heine's is in the way of present accomplishment. For he
"The vision of inspired Man- om of the said that one day the old German nounced as gods would rise from their graves chester men that the Angel of
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Charter" startled for a while the pre-war world out of its settled complacency in 1893 placed on re- cord his conviction that war would' never be wholly banished. He said:
Peace would descend' in a drapery of untaxed calico is still as far from accomplishment as the vision seen in Patmos."
Then came the crumb of com- fort:
""But it seems possible to hope that war, terrible and to some ex- tent pitiless as it must always be, may come to be conducted without intentional injury to non-combat- ants and with the smallest possible damage to private property."
Where stands that "hope" now? It wont with the wind of the first aeroplane.
A study of predictions leads to rather melancholy conclusions, for prophets, except they have an axe to grind, are in these days a pessi- mistic crowd rather than a goodly fellowship. It takes courage, when Ithe heavens are cracking, to "judge man's wisdom by his hopes.”.
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