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A few months ago I reviewed Mr. J. B.
a luxury it belongs to age of comfort and security. When competition, either between nations or between classes and groups in the same nation becomes fierce, it necessarily goes by the board, beenuse it is not the strongest formn of buman as- rosiation.
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STRADA ONIONS AND CONTROL. The trade unions seem likely to kill democracy in this country; för is abso
3. Haldane's the book called "Daedalus Tutely intolerable that a group of men dream of the glorious possibdithould have the power to lery war on the
scientific invention have in
it of the necessaries store for the men of the future Now, we of life
ing its whole struc have Mr Bertrand Russel, the greasure. If a democratic government is too mathematician, writing a sequel called weak to put down strikes with a firm **learus," which draws a far og cheerful hand, some other form must be devised, picture. Whether in the and science will even if we have to take a leaf que of prove to have been ablystig or a cue Lenin's book. It is very significant that to mankind is, to my mini, at open ques Fascin has been accepted with compura- tion
tive calmness in Italy and elsewhere ns As some of my readers may be a little the leser of two evils. rusty in theie leek mythology. I mny
When nation is
4
fighting for its exjs- explain that Daedalus was a great sculpence, democracy is suspended at once be tor, painter and sciratiüc inventor, common consent. In in fvit
to
Weak
Anong other thing he invented in dying the same is likely to be true of rations and incompetent government in A crisis, mach-ne which posterity represented as wings glued on
With thi which fre b flew safely from Cre bis son fcarius ** crashed. drowned. Henes the appropriateness of the titles of the two book
τα
·but |
Sonce, says Mr. Russell has incre man's control over nature and we might have exp cled that it would have inerva would have been the result if hom comport and well-being. This sapiens. wer rational animal but be not. Instinct would have kept us brian bus the equilibrium has been upset of stable equili- and our instincts are our bane. We not only over eat like demestic dogs, but we over-fight, which is much wor
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„to recover after a
great dis The French are believed to have! •Lound the nations of the Little Ent ente to declare war if any monarchies are restore!
ed in Central Europe. Nothing more iniquitious pan by imagined than this interference with the right of a nation to choose its own constitution: but it wailing European Republic that they en shows how strong is the conviction of the emies would much more formidable if they ceased to be democratic. A great expected on the Continent and France swing to the Right may be confulentiv will hardly be able to prevent it.
A PREDICTION ANSWERED. Mr. Russell's last prediction that the THE GOLDEN" VAND AFTER
world will some day be united under one, Ladstrialism increases the productive empire, perhaps, as he says, the United ness of labour, and makes more luxuries States, seems to me most improbable. possible. Our first luxury in England His own illustration of the two football was a much larger population, which teams is almost a sufficient, aswer. No actually lowered the standard of living thing has been made inore characteristic from what it had been in the eighteenth of our time than the successful recails, century. Then came the golden age when of disaffected provings when the inhabit England had ainest a monopoly of a independence. The chief exception, the ants have memories, or even legends of "factures; the whole country prospered ex failure of the Southern States of America ceedingly. Fereign competition brought the golden age to an ead and
establish their independence, may be herce competition between nations for markets mid to prove the rule: for there was no and raw materials began. This necessitgendary history in this case, ted huge armaments, and at last landed the evilised work in an internecine war,
Nationalism, and industrialism both encourage the growth of organi-ation, which has been made posible by science on a scale unknown before. The contra lised great nation is the work of science and it to science that we owe the bility of manipulating or manufacturing public opinion through the Press. Edun tion has been standardised with the same motive and the same result.
“An industrial world cannot maintain itself against internal disruptive force without a great deal more organisation than we have at present. Minor organ: isationsuch as trade unions, can be kept in order only by a very powerful central. authority-a much more powerful central Government than we have at present,
- WANING OF LIBERTY,
Within all the groups themselves the waning of liberty and democracy is every where apparent. An American railroad president is alot an autocrat:. In Parliament the. Cabinet grow stronger against the Commons and the Prime Min- tr against the Cabinet. As the struggle grows sharper, the tendency to trust to
man, not to the ballot box
the
are
I do not see any prospect of an end to, international rivalries, though we have now a new influence in favour of peace- namely, that the high-spirited and comba tive upper classes, who made most of the era in the past, have been almost ruined to reflect that another by their last adventure, and likely European war would inevitably lead to their total dis appearance. The next war, if there is one, will not be the work of the few, byt, of the many, and some think that the many are more pacific than the few. I doubt it, but we must hope for the best.
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t.on, however, has mostly ever Chins, and Correspondents in Ezrope
of
ed short at the national frontiers. reasons, Mr. Rusell thinks, brcane rivalry is a stronger motive than love of gain. If two football teams agreed to Instead of trying to defeat each combine other, they might score a hundred goals in
LA hour, but where would be the fun! However this may be, Liberalism, with its saibboletha Free Trade, Free Press, unbiased education, and the like already begaged to the pay, or soon will do. Russia, Hungary, Italy, Spain Bavaria have shown how frail democracy and become cast at only in outlying regions bine it lingers Mr. Hussell makes the strange prophecy that uitimately, a world-organisaties may nis diternative to mutual unt us to extermination. There perhaps science may come in useful.
cutotional life may
be ret
the
be controlled through the secretions of the ducties glands. By judicious the Stats may give to the holders of power the dis position to command to masses d'a position to obey. Injections producing free ty would be reserved for time of war. Mr. Rus is clearly in a pessimistic mood, for theugluhe thinks we must choose between a world-empire and mutual ex- termination, he remembers the
and decay of the Roman Empirion
douts whether it will be worth waile.
This book of
and
icinted. The dates rather dia
properties wait- ing to be liberated in satser are not dwelt on after the first few
pages; and the decay of filary need not be a prepar ation for a single, world-state.
It is no doubt possible that mankind will end by co-operative suicide. In that case we clay imagine a future historian from
Телич far more likely planet thun
Mark for this prefpee to his
the
of the conqust "In Planet Number Three of the solar syst
system, the dis appearance of the great lizarde was fol- lourd
1 emergente of Hom low by the gradual en
of our earth by
the Yen writing in
a species of large aps, walking on their hind leg. By rains of a superior brain development, this cruel and destrue-
establishod a complete. davey over the land surface of the darcy tr
planet. xterminating many apreies and enslaving
Their
was brought to an
aseen-
and when called the twentieth century.
the rest cover into di
kert
onditionin
how
rint the atom a discovery which they characteristically need to extirpate each other, and to reduc, the earth to the de which it was found h our first settler The Inte of t this race is often referred to by our theologians. as a proof aft
of the pidvidential government
‚rnan
of the universe. But on the whole think that in spite of Sir Ernest Luther. ford and his collaborators, a
Last and a Inst woman will manage to Rur vive and preserve our precious race from the fate of the ichyosaurus and the dora.
The refretions of Mr. Russell on the decay of liberty and demcerns are શર fanciful and orginteresting. Here In disposed to agree with him. Liberalini
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