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Nobreaks the marriage of first cousins, Intellectual field tö-day can imagine that they fill "This is a branch of legislation at which the hamsa mind with the complete satinisodon many will be inclined to mile now that they once Inspired. There are many bát z which bas developed by that new attempts to get beyoid them and to And As president of the Society of Comparative science of which we scarcely know how to the explanation of what they do not explain Home day these will lane in a new generalin- which is greatly taking up the higher annual meeting of that body at the hall of the the country. We smile at such regulations of and no doubt once more create in mszy minds Taw Society, Chancery lane, and previous to an
the illusion that at last we have the the enactment in
key, address by Biz Courtenay Ilbert on The Work marriage new. Ifti osmosess and Prospects of the Society, the chairman fourable defents are
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ditary these steps are to be gratefully taken, although great, if it is found that hareditary
arb, thereby paid a high tribute to the value of the work better and purer rase is being produced, a ries one hand and a good deal of premature exult
checked, that
pain on the which the society is doing.
Lord Bosebery, who was received with cheers, we are always aiming, and we sare that we shall alters the standing necessition of human nature more competent to people the ideal state at which atton on the other. None of them, however, to be here today to testify myways amile! wald: I wished to be
Now it very high appreciation of the work which this
seems legislation more or affects more than the exteral guise of the society has dope
Legislation. Lord Essebery presided at the Pronounes the name, the soiaños of ion which will ones more give us a frasb-start,
seemed fated to osas mnoh
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GOLF AT SINGAPORE. the British consider that a work Dame we are assembled to-day, That that is that is. There are, I believe, sixty Legisla recognised is shown by the fact that some of the rode of golfers in Singapore-mostly deffers,
There are, the Straits Times says, several Britains what used to called turos within the British Empire itself there Colonies are begining to contribute to our who are able to hold their own with the beat SheIn the flest flight, we have about half-a-desen are some afty Igistar in the United society is cooognising the vast States. And besides, there are the various
of its adity work, Not merely is the society not State Amateurs in England, Scotland or Ireland; thes Legislaturen of Europe; in the Austrian.
sustained but the whole of this arduous work on a few who are slightly above medieority, Empire alone there certainly more nontained in these volumes is done absolutely handicaps ranging from 18 to 24, or who are lant of sil the great army of duffers with such magdane alfaire dozen.
secretary or the contributors receive any pay as handicape. Dar better play mant whatever for this priceless work. And 1 visits to the Mother Country and shins in the
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TIL sportsms, tot even the of Isaak Walion, has suck a large reserva force of hope. Buoyed up by a at the arst green, he is lured on to emaiste Braid and Vardon, and does fairly well in regard to score
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necessity of anoh a soolaty as this
HUGE OUTFIT OF LAWS.
THE JUBILEE OF DARWINISM,
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"JESERIC."
Special interest, the T mes remarks, attaches to the meeting of the Lingean Society of London held to colebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the great joint communication by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on the variation of species under natural selection. For although Darwin passed away in 1812, Dr. Wallace was present to receive the special, medal of the Society-reseiring back what is his own, as the A Ministry now, to whatever party it may president happily put it while the veteran Siraatil, in an evil bour, he meets the candid friend / have left the Godowns, end all Goods remeining
"Acts of Parliament at the Lk Hooker also took part in who is his undoing. He soon learns that hinį
dingeTM
This society alone, of all human agencies, garners ap this buge ontpat of laws, which is Joemed necessary for the welfare of the hamsa 18:08. And I think in this rospect we have to remember that no Parliament is, to my know ledge, half so motive as our own in this work, belong, reckone end of a ression as sportsmen reckon their bag and related how Darwin had communicated to The laws oro presumably good from their point him his great idea long before Dr. Wallace
view. But from the point of view of those who ara sffected by them they seem enormonely independently thought it out and what trouble numerous. And you must remember also that he had to prevent Darwin from inch these laws are passed in the main without any abandoning all claim to originality. Both adequate discussion, because it is
is impossible to
to were give, adequate discussion to so many in was as to hos entirely original, and all the world knows as ere hor generotisly cach distans of the other. It passed by our Legislature, and, indeed, so
far
recognition for the claims of from having discussion facilitated upon them, would be better fox science and for the world if every means to employed, legitimate or illegit the example they sat in that respect were na mate, mocording to the point of view from much rogarded as they theory they jointly pro which you ragard them, to restrict and suffocate mulgated. Their treatment of one another's olaims standing rubaks to the manu jealon- Now I venture to
nem
style is absolutely wrong in every particular stance, grip, swing, all bad. From
that moment be is doomed. In endesteuring to amulata his amateur tator, he violates every canon of style in golf, sinks deeper sad deeper in the banker of despair; and finally too his place definitely and irrotrievably in the ranks of the duffers. With so many golfers bere anxious to improve their game and to obtain something more than an elementary ides of the theory, and with a steady addition to
rank
of players, it has been suggested to us to advocate that the time has now arrived when
discussion of all these legislative proceedings that too often disigare scientific inter-ngapore might go the length of employing stances, a society of
that in all these circum.
comparative legislation is
learn the game or to Improve his proficiency in tit There are four golf clubs here, and between the bem a professional who was also a club-maker. scald well establlah himself-in-Singapore
Rad cern an income that would attract a good plager of reliable character. We kaow the proposal has been made before, and that it was vetoed a year or so ago by the Singapore Golf Club; but is not the subject worth re-opening and worthy of the consideration of a joint committee of the four local clubs
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different I do not think nach a society was so much illuminating idea, and of the required as it is now. We were then living procedure followed by the two discoverera ander what I may call the era of emancipation. With charming modesty Dr. Wallace de- The object was to strike off restriction. Wsclared that only a singular piece of good were freeing the Jews, we were freeing the look gave him any share whatever in the Roman Catholics, we were freeing the munici discovery. Darwin had hit upon it
it twenty palities, we were freeing the universities. years earlier, and communicated it in confidence Everywhere our task was one of enlarging ths to one or two partionlar friends. But he would boundaries of freedom. That task has in the not publish his Idea until he had soonmulated a main, been accomplished, and we have passed, es has often been observed, into an era much mors difficult, much more fartile of stambling blocks, much mure full of stumbling blocks the era of construction, Now all these in the maing the more important portion of the laws that are passed now are laws of construction, lawn aimed at mould. ing buman society in a particular and beneficent direction. They aim almost, and I thick if one school had its way they would aim still more, at constructing a now society on the rains of the old. Bab at any rate, whether we are going so far as that or not, we annot sbút, out from ourselves the prospect that increasingly the Legislatures will endeavour 10 raise and fortify new structuras of sainty somewhat empirically by means of legislation, Now I watch that with some vigilance and more anxiety, because I belong to that small sehool which does not believe that laws in the long ran on greatly ameliorate humanity. Ithe world. The junior discoverer did not rash am kot sure that I do not incline to that email heresy, if it by
be a that stale is most forsy, walch believes that
fortunate that achieves its own The joint communication did not at the development by the character of its own citizens, moment produce any remarkabla effet," he and by the individual efforts of its own citizens | subj.ot being too noval and too ominous for as little as possible supported and da the old school to cater the lists before armour-
gu by legislation. A E pay rate, sure I am that the ing" But the heated and long-continued con progress of that fate which is enabled so in troversy that followed made ample amends for develop itself be more sure and more abundant any lack of excitement at the beginning. How then that of the State which resta on le cislative heated that controversy was, and how it ragad measures for the achievement of its destinies. throughout the entire üeld of thought, cannot Now, f
if we are to construct, and constantly to perhaps be easily realized excapt by those who Copstinal because for ten months day and are specially conversaut with the subject, or ara night our Legislature is constantly at work on old enough to râmember. In the popular mind with the task of legislation it surely is of the cost Darwin's special work became aleatified vital importance to us to know what other evolution, and the two things together seemed to nations are doing in the same direction, how great part of the population of this outry to far they have succeeded by their measures, and strike at the root of everything they iad been how far they have failed. I will take one accustomed to revere. Nor can it be sold that exemple barning question at this out of conspicuous supporters of the new doctrine. momsut → — - much was done to conciliato by some of the most the question of Old Age Pensions. vast importance to all who have it at heart to The adopted a highly militant attitude and know what has been done in, New Zealand, appeared to revel in putting their views in what has been done ia Australis, and what has the most startling and uncompromising forma been
done in Germany with regard to this they could device. The explanation is prov great subject. But I am extremely sceptical as bably in part that they like their opponents, of the some of the ideas they espoused.
eply upon them. It was only after twedly store of observations and had pondered
years of labour that he thought his idea call. ciently buttressed by faste to be lid before the scientific world. Had he been less leisurely and lesz ovnscientions he would have stood alone as the author of a generalization which has profoundly modified scientific thought not The Mogni Line atr. Pathan left the U. K. only in his own department of solene on the 8th inst, for the Far East. batin al departments of Reinze. Dr. Wallace, as he tells us had the flash ol The Silk ex C.P.E. str. Monteagle arrived in | Ome insight, thought the thing out in a few hours, New York on the 11th inst. wrote it down with sich applications and developments as occurred to him, and sent it off to Darwin, all within a week. He says be was a young man in a hurry; bay applying his oWD. method of looking for causes, wa should lay that for him, occupied with other work in the far off Celebss, it was se natural t› do what he did as it was for Darwin in his astud life at home to wait for verification before his ides to
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legrelate on that subject are fully pourerast with these varied systems. And I scarcely some trace of that exaggeration in the remark know how they could be conversant unless they of the President at this meeting rend the folumes of the Society of Comparative it is not easy to concbire the possibility in Take another case. We observe the future of any revolution of biological thought Legislation. in the course of this work certain tendencies in so momentous as that started by Darwin and legislation a characteristic of particular Wallace. It is not a matter of legitimate com periode-
certain subjects DL which both our own plaint that the scope and permanence of a new Empire and other natione seem to be conamtrat, generalization is exaggerated. No generalíza“. their attention. For example, during theton is hast, and its value les precisely in the last two years there have been thirty-three Act stimulus it gives to the intelligence of 10 day and ordinances dealing with children, and 117 It supplies a B DOW point of view, it dete men Asts and ordinances dealing with crimes thinking on newi
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