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then, as now, the masses buzzed like bees | his disbelief in the possibility of a satis. | all man made, evolved out of human error There are various auswors, in conduct. However that may be, history wantonly irritated, complained of poverty | factory answer. and want, and hearkened to demagogues iù | though, and they are only unsatisfactory does not show that man has really pro- History through- 1820 just as they are doing in 1908. In because men expect to receive the ultimate : gressed sive in a circle. CORBETT'S tim", "when the ruling formula or whole truth in a phrase. Each of the out shows how men have indeed succceded was everything for the people but nothing many facets of the gem of truth is too big in making things, but usually not the by the people, such a Speech »s that deliver- for such treatment, and exceptions accom- things they set out to make, but something Their boaste‹l free will" is not to ed from the Throne, teeming with half- pany rules as shadow consorts with light. else.
It is the can produce is the be denied them, but qualified. promises of measures all in favour of the Th best the wis st
relativo. When we repudiate socialism, we
free will and choice of a tethered dog, inasses, would have disgusted the Citumans
which my
bark or by silent, jump the as well as the Lords. In the early do not necessarily embrace individualism days of Radicalism, it
assume, length of its ebain or sit still, walk to left met with exclusively, as shallow reasoners W.EX swords and stives, the best and worthiest When wi pint out the futility of reform or tight, in all things limited only by
When we
its ther. In time, as the Oxyrhynchus of the classes regarding the gassertion of we do not advocate stagnation. the discontented masses as almost sheer wimit the justice of an apparently pessim. papyri surely illustrate sufficiently, the fact We da not deliberately that it didn't matter much becomes ap- blasphemy. A political speech milder fær istie glatement,
It did mater and does matter, than the average demagogie utterance of flout optimism. All this is platitudinal, but parent. to-day was a transportation matter. There he ause it is constantly disregarded, it is ; though, the mom nt we realize that it does In any not. It matters to the living dog, but not were a score of offences that then involved necessary frequently to repeat it. capital punishment Lind by litle mem- case, the truth is essentially a pixtitude, and ' (from the wise dog's point of view) to the Every action of the living, hers of the classes learned to sympathise, must always he, although that is not to 'dog's posterity. and conceded inch by inch. Nowadays say all plati'ules are true. In led that moving dog (or man) may work a cerebric, they concede ell be' ell, throwing very brings us back to Mr. Barfoer's warning, cellular change, liable to be transmitted by generous sops fi Cerb rus, and still th Though he did not exploitly say so, he in the my dorious force of heredity, but only to that extent need it or he consider clamour goes on.
There is no sign of effet reproaches us with letting Granos
posterity. COMTE cheerfully contemplates satiety. In his speech at Bristol the Prime lead us into the habit of accepting as a
the passing of unnumbered generations of Minister laid it down that You cannot truism the theory of Demulence-an untrue afford to play with a little Protection any or at least umdemonstrable platitude and unrewarded strivers in the faith that some remote fand, as history suggests, impossible) with taking for grantel that the ilen of more than with a lit ́l» entgious diseas. Substituting the words
generation will enjoy perfection, much in a little Socialism" Progress as proccoded and nurtured by for a little Protects" the injunetin Į philosophers of the Comte school is as good. the same way as some religionists scorn the
If there is self-evident.
a psible gift of earthly happinesa in the hope of might (a contemporary has suggested) be
some happiness unearthly. turned with deadly effet a aust himself, crystalization of ultimate truth, we woul! But the day is long past when Parliament expect to find it in some “a-liga stating the tethered, all playing a part very like that of the Hy on the wheel, and our pushings played with "a little Socialism." It has, inevitable and inseparable presene › in every- with either Party in power, been playing thing of opp stes, of good and bad, light and pullings, while they may result ia a moro pushful perity, do not affect the Diabolo with very big pieces of Socialism, in- aud dark, negative and postive, or what deed, and the appetite apparently grows with you will; an idox dimly perceived by the progress of the wheel. Necessity invents* what it feeds on. Men are wondering now Chinese, als striving for an unreachable; It invented capitalism, and expitalism be. if there is ever going to be a stopping place. finality of philosophy, in their Happy Mean. gat socialism, and so on (whither none can to infinity. Philosophic pessimism So long as King's Sp erhes are so placatory Once this is grasped firmly, we see truth in say)
saves us from fruitless fussing: practionl and innocuous as they have grown to bi, paradox, that the rankest pessimism is the we need, perhaps, fear no serious rellig surest optimism, and that when we come to uptime saves us from pessimistic inaction or sureble; that is life; so down with them waving; and so long as the House of Lords apply that sure optimism (of the wort game-
that deery ine msistency. We may admire does nothing cutrageously high-handed, it what unfairly burlesqued by VOLTAIRE) We
our marmalade, or we may eat it, or wisely looks as if the iconoclasts will prefer to let run the risk of being mischievously pes.
foolish It is it alone. The moral for us at present, ifsimistic
my do both; but only a as tru that idealization
will advocate ONA more than that it makes 1fe extremist there be a moral, is that even get reforms makes life poorer as
the other. do not ensure content. If the masses of | richer, and it is our own fault if we do not 1820 could have foreseen all that would take pains to use it or reject it in proper have been cone del by the end of the seasoll. A spo mful of marmalule, høllup! century, they would surely have sworn that in sunlight, is are of the prettiest hrs of there could be nothing Eft to wish for-colour that nature has to offer. that the millennium must date from the aesthetic pleisure enough to justify its inauguration of such conditions as they existence, if (which is not the eve) any now enjoy. Yet saving there is less low- i existence neded to be justifiol. The sam lessness, the agitation is going as strong now as when the assassinion of the wholeful al offers material nourishment 11
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A manting of the Hongkong Legidstiva Connell was hell oɑ the 27th instant in the Cane 1 ('namber
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JOHN FREDERICK KOMG, CB. DAO
Hom Mr F Secretary I
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SIR LUGARD,
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10. Mr W Rek Davira, (Altorasy·
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Hon Mr W, CHATHAN C.M.G} (Dirvator of Iblic Work«).
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A W Barwin (Registrar-
M»n (mən、nder Bystr. I. H. TAYLOR, R. N. Harbour Myemri
Exten. Cabinet was plinued. There appears to be jit umur shes the body and no longer delights Gazed at, it deligits the eve finality about reform, al IRELA perhaps be safely assumed there never will | without contribring fa materid nourish. be.
nent at all. The analogy, though w ak in various waATS, EDLY servo to explain how A BUNDLE OF PARADOXES. there are fines when deals are only to be
looked at. and ten s when it were (Daily Press, February 2×th.)
not to eat them It explains how a Tately we referred to the « cialistic ideal
man 203v be pessimistja in theory as impracticable becaus· matur · is in divi las-optimiste in prienie, or vice versa, or lith li-tic. Yesterday we wound up a few alternately and consistently. Human schem comments suggested by the King's Speech | 15, beautify hfe have getal y threatened its with the refletion that there is no fiuality complexity, winch it is aliver filly to ussail. in the matter of reform. Today, in another | The fa blist regirds everything in life that columa, we publish a report of an address | he cannot un Erstand suffice itly to admire delivered last month at Cambridge by Mr. as the sur_990n r girl the vermiform BALFOUR, who, even by these who do not
He then to cut it out. appendix admire him as a peuitician, will be granted day an aestheti- minded surgeon will dis, some standing as a philosopher. We take
eiver that the human ear is an ugly and it he cannot be taxed with any pessimistic | useless exerese nee, and want t› unbelief in Progress; he does behere in PETER JE in the dioden. The or that Progress-in A circle.
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PORTUGAL'A CALAMITY Current modes of speech, he pointed out, i prea her that there he has a su table tex ibe Exertt<X©Y -On the 6th Fibroary take Decadence more or less for granted,· for a sermon on tra» reform The text ...
last shie Council pumed a resolution with regard t. the crim almost inclinel and they speak with still goederenfidence
which has been cɔmmitted in true relorme, of Progre-s as : ssured, Why should we;
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Before proceeding to bu‹iasme, I will Mr expect to progress molefinitely 2,"
me-ldling of some previous reformer The rsd th· mply rasived from the Governor of BALFOUR demanded, and forthwith stated vermiform appendices of life are probably Mico, to whom the resolution was forwarded.
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Hon De Ho Ka, MB, CM.CM G Hsa Mr H E Pollack, K C. Hon. Mr E. A Hewett
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Mr AGM Fletcher (Clerk of Councils).
MINUTEN.
The minute of the previous meeting were real, and confirmed