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MR. BALFOUR ON "DECADENCE,"
Following is a better report of Mr. Balfour's Henry Sgwick memorial lecture
For this molly religion or religious philo sophy could supply a cure But for the former stimalna which the influence of kojence on the the ppropriate remedy was the perpetual business of mankind offered to their sluggish Mr. Balfour, took for the subject of his curiosity. If in the Isat hundred years the seture Desidence, and in the course of it whole material setting of afvilized life had mid that by decadence he did not mean the altered, they owed it neither to politicians por sont, of decadence often attributed to certain to political institutions. They owed it to the phases of artistic or literary development, in combined efforts of those who had advanced which an overwrought technigno, straining to science and those who had applied
If their it express sentiments too! subtle or too morbid, ia outlook apon the universe had suffered modif deemed to have supplanted the direct inspiration cativus in detail as great aut, so numerous that of an earlier and a simpler age. The decadence they amounted collectively to a revolution, it respecting which he wished to put questions was to men of scienca we owed it, not to was not literary or artistic, it was political and theologians or philosophers. The conclusions national. It was the decadence which attacked, at which he provisionally arrived wore that was alleged to attack, great communities and they could not regard decadence and arrested historic civilizations; which was to arciel ies of development is less normal in human communi of men what senility was to man, and was often, ties than progress, though the point at which 4 like senility, the precursor and the cause of final the energy of advanco was exhausted varied in dissolution. To Macaulay it seemed natural that differant races and civilizations that the ages hence young country like New Zealand internal cause by which progress was on- should be flourishing but not less-naturalcouraged, hindered, or raversed laid to a grost that an old country like England should have extent beyond the lid of ordinary political decayed. Berkeley, in well known stanza, discussion, and were not easily expressed in told how the drams of civilisation had slowly current political terminology; that the influence travelled wastward to find its loftiest develop which a superior civilization, whether acting by nient, but also Its final catastropha in the New exple or imposed by force, may have in World. Every man who was weary, hopeless, adeausing an inferior one, though often bene- or disillusioned talked as if he had caught these ficent, was not likely to be self supporting its various diseases from the decadent epoch in withdrawal would be followed by decadence which he was born. Bat why should civilize unless the charter of the civiliation was in tions thus wear out and great communities harmony bath with the acquired temperament. deony And what evidence was there that in and the innate capacities of those who had been fact they did? These questions, though he induced in accept it that as regards those could not give to them any conclusive answers, nations which still advanced in virtue of their were of much more than a merely theoratic on inbarent: energies, though time had interest.
For if ourrout modes of speech brought porhaps new causes of disquiet, it had took decadence more or less for granted, with brought siso now grounds of hope; and that, still greater confidence did. they aprak of whatever the perils is frout of them, there were, progress 54 assured. Yet, if both were so far, no symptoms either of panse or of roal; they could hardly a studied apart, they regression in the onward movement which for toast evidently limit and qualify sach other is more than a thousand years had bona char actual experience and they could not be isolated acteristic of Western civilization.The Thus, in speculation, Weismann had definetely naked grow old-and-died, assing that old age-and- how it came about that the higher organisme death were not inseparabia characteristics of Ilving protoplaam, and that the simplest organisms suffered. no batural, decay, and perished, when they did perish, by accident, starvation, or specifio disease. The answer be gave to his own question was that the death of the individual was so useful to the race that GGESFORD (Faruished) No. 114, natural selection had, in all hat the very lowest Era Contains 6 ROOMS. species, extorminated the potentially immortal. One was tempted to inquire whether this - ingenious explanation could be so modibed as to
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Was it needful for the cause of civilization as a whole that the organized embodiment of each 1851 there had been nothing in this country to Sir William Mather explained that sinca particular civilization, if and when it compare in Importance, either industrially, com development was arrested, should make roommercially, or politically, with the projected for younger and more rigorous competitors Franco-British Exhibition, which would be siz And; if so, could we find in uatural selection the mechanism by which the principle of decay and
times as targa us any of its predecessors in dissolution should be so implanted in the very find expression in the exhibition was that the United Kingdom. The idea that would nature of human associations that a due the manufacturers and merchants of Eng. succession among them should always be main- Ised would do everything in their power" Jained To this second question the answer must, he thought, be in the negatire. The all time, and accord in the realms of intel to ssoare peace throughout the world for struggle for existence between different races lect, industry, and manufacture. In and different societies had admittedly played
the planning of tha arhibition the object had Weismann's idea from the organic to the social nations in place of suspicion and threats of war, great part in social development. But to extend been to promote peaes and goodwill among the world would imply a prolonged competition to remove the barriers that dividel the nations, between group of communities in which decad-
so that the world as a whole might becom's more 8:06 was the rule, and groups in which it was not, ending in the survival of the first and the or less one grest community of human beings. distraction of the second. The groups whose desired to be eternally at peace with one an When two nations like Busland and Frases members suffered periodical duosdence and dis-other, that was a grest fautor making for the solution would be the fittest to survive, just as
peace of the world. The Executive Committes.
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on Weisman's theory, those species bad dustrial and commercial world a great oppor- in competitive efficiency whom death did not pretend to offer to the English in- was a reality, never soted in isolation. It was alty of making profit through the exhibition. always complicated with, and often acted dustry who bare exhibited at the tiany er Most of those engared in commerce and in- through, other more obsioux causes. It was always, therefore, possible to argue that to these the world during the last quarter of a
hibitions that had been held in various parts of causes, and not to the more subtle and susive thought that they had derived as much bane. century, influences collectively described as decadence," it from the display of their products as was the decline and fall of great communities was
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which did most obstinately refuse to be thus bilions from time to time, England could not simply explaine. It was u rain that historians ford to be absent from such displays. Apart enumerated the public calamities which precoded, from the question of expediency there was the and no doubt contributed to, the final catastrophe. much greater qusation of promoting a better Civil dissentions, military disasters, postilences, understanding between the veoples of France famines, tyrants, tax gatherers, growing and England. The time had arrived when the wealth the gloomy catalogue was arolled rusintenance of peace and goodwill deponded before their eyes, yet, Romehow, it did not in all cases wholly satisfy them; they monarchs or diplomatists. There could be na more upon the masses of the people than spon felt that some of those diseases were
kind which
better exemple of the unity of two pooples in vigorous body politic should easily be able to survive, that others the interests of peace thau that afforded by the were secondary symptoms of some obscurer nations would show, and to the world, side by Franco-British Exhibition, where, the two malady, and that in neither case did they supply side, the beat they had in the folds of industry were in search. Consider, for instance, the long produced would be a great political factor, and them with the full explanations of which they and commerce. The mutual understanding agony and the final destruction of Roman
after such an example it would be possible for Imperialism in the West, the most maneatons England to pursue, by similar means, at in atastrophe of which we had historic record. terrals of time, the same purpose of securing s Rome fell, and great was the fall of it. why it fell, by what secret mines its defences ont the world. It was not too much to hope.
Rut closer friendship with other countries through. were breached, and what made its garrison so that by means such as these our insularity faint-hearted and ineffectual-that was not 50 might be broken down, and we might become a clear. If there was no progzigg, decad sues was slow; and but for what Western Europe did strong factor in the extinction of threats of and what it failed to do during the long straggle from amongst the nations.. with militant-Mahomedanism there might still chester man connected indirectly with York- be an empire in the East, largely Asiatic in shire, he was very anxious that those centres population, Christian in religion, Greek in cold make a great show of their respectire culture. Roman by political descent. Had industries, for it is a question of the honour of this been the
of
avente, larga portions of mankind would doatless bare been much better governed than they are. It was not so clear that they would have been more "progressive. Progress was with the Weat, with communities of the
course
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Mr. Imre Kiralfy, the commissioner-geueral of the exhibition, said that the original scheme embraced forty-two acres less than the sx. hibition would. now cover, for additional sud had bad to be taken to socommodate the Colonies. The Canadian Government had voted £60,000 towards their section, and he was informed that they were prepared to increase this to £190,000, Australis and the other Colonies had voted proportionately large anionuts. The French people were apsoding £4,000 on the decoration of the textile section. alone, but, so far as the display of goods was concerned, he felt sure that the British textila exhibit would boogus), if no superior, to that, of the French. With regard to bis personal interest in the exhibition, he had drawn n He did not himself believe that this age was profit from the exhibition it would be devoted was a work of love. Should there any either less spiritual or more sordid than 118 to the establishment of an institution, with predecessors. He believed, indeed, precisely the branches in Paris and London, having for its reverse. But, however this might be, was it main purpose the maintenance and extension not plain that, if society was to be moved by the of the Entente Cordiale" between the two romote speculations of isolated thinkers it could only be on condition that their isolation was not
nations. complete? Philosophy bad never touched the mass of men except through religion. And though the parallel was not complete, it was safe to say that science would never toob them unaided by ita practical applications. Its wonders might be catalogued for purposes of education, they might be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startled and fatigued the imagination; but they would form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they were connected, however rometele, with the conduct of ordinary life. There was shother, and an opposite, danger in which it was possible to fall. The material world, howsoever it might have gained in sublimity, had under: the touch of science, lost in domestic charm.
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