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IS OUR CIVILISATION WANING?)
-THE COMING OF DEMOS.
BY GEORGE GABOOYNE IN THE PALL
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A prophetic philosopher said at Oxford the other day that he thought it was certain we were fast nearing one of those great secular changes through which history occasionally passed. The present
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Yet, though the event may be delayed until the fires of anarchy and mutual strife bave devastated Europe and America, it is probably in Asia, as of old, that the world will be born afresh.
The coming of Demos has never, in the whole history of the world, signified a further advance of civilisation. It has always been the indubitable signal which precedes chaos, the ringing of the bell which heralds the fall of the curtain. Landing one night at a Mediterranean port after a long sojourn in the then still tranquil East, I saw in & dimly lighted square an encounter between reluctant troups and a huge mob carrying an immense blood red banner. It was a scene which stuck in the memory thought of the lands where wat
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something more to the sum total of human knowledge; each lifts humanity a little higher. The tide of life recedes for a time, but returns in greater fulness. Mucli in forgotten in the intervals of darkness, but the materials for recon- struction are each time better and more. abundant. Mankind will never find the The narrous system of civilised races-peace for which it craves, but peace is not has never sufficiently adjusted itself to our destined lot. "Calm's not life's the intense strain of modern life, Faint crown," wrote Matthew Arnold. Life is a subconscious instincts surviving from the battle, for men as well as plants.
Even prehistoric ages, when men lived in free in the gathering twilight we must fight air and large space, are rising in rebellion our battle manfully, knowing as we do against confinement in our cities. This that though our cívílisation may be over: ceaseless scurrying in trains, this herce turned, new and more glorious flowers will Itruggling in business, these feverish blossom amid its ruins.
interludes in the close atmosphere of theatres and gilded restaurants, this incessant and discursive study of news- papers, to what does it all tend? Why not seek any means of escape from the whirlpool which is sucking mankind in!
糊新外中港香 I think the most significant characteristic OF of England to-day is the way many men not submerged wrecks, but men with something at stake talk of the possibili ties of a social upheaval, not with dread, but almost with longing, like our Oxford philosopher. They know not what it will evolve, but they are sick of the modern conditions of life. We have travelled far since the days of Queen Victoria.
amid the ruins of mange and deserted cities, and knew the Blood-re oriflamme to be the harbinger of doom. Though the rise of the many-tongued proletariat has taken many forms, the rosult is invariably the same. The pre liminary phases are prolonged and often hopeful, but the ultimate end is struction. When Demos finally takes com- mand, the close of a great era is at land.
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