EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST.
KEEN Y.M.C.A. DEBATE.
WESTERN CIVILISATION NOT ADAPTABLE TO CHINA,
The lounge of the European
night on the occasion of a debate on Western civilisation and its adaptability to the Orient..
Mr. P. S. Cassidy, Chairman of the Literary and Debating Com- mittee, presided and as it was the
England, he expressed his pleasure at being able to take part again in the activities of a section of the Y.M.C.A. which particularly inter-
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How We Dior...
The Rev. F. C. Young, who pro-
but those who had travelled most posed "That Western civilisation The speaker referred to various widely and had had most exderi- is not adaptable to the Orient," definitions of civilisation, including ence of the races of mankind were that of "Bringing out of Bar- throughout the world mankind was the most deeply impressed that thought that in considering a motion of this nature an attempt barism" which obviously could not should be made to approach the apply in the case of China, because subject with an unbiased mind its civilisation was far more an- eient than our own.. He took it
ode.
first debate since his return from and, although the "personal equa that they were to consider whether our Western civilisation were those
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it was possible and workable that Eastern civilisation should be taken away and replaced with that of the West, or that ife place should be taken by a modified form of West: ern civilisation, A simile might be drawn, with the two tributaries of the River Rhone, one coming from the hills and crossing yellow coun- try, and the other originating from the glacier regions and traversing eleaner aoils. The two flowed past Geneva where on the left of the city one glimpsed the yellow stream and on the right the pure water from the glasier. It was not until the yellow deposits of the one had been deposited on the banks of the surrounding country that the two met and flowed as one.
In support of his contention that the "principles at the foundation of of universal brotherhood and an enthusiasm for humanity, the speaker traced the working of these principles in the life of Europe since the dawn of the Christian er, and the tendency throughout the centuries towards the raising of the masses and the growth of greater freedom and independence. It was a spirit of altruism which development and had resulted in a had made possible this process of stimulation to progrese. It was not his case that Enstern "civilisa tion should be scrapped and West- era civilisation superimposed, bu that the above-mentioned principles and altruistic movement were pos sible and adaptable to all human. ity.
Ia China Peaceful? Dealing with the claim that mili- tarism represented the spirit of Western civilization and that in the Orient one had quietness, peace and repose, the speaker said one could, hardly reconcile the picture with China in the throes of Civil War and the Western..nations band- ing their energies together towards the limitation of armaments and the effective working of, a League for International Peace.
Applying the above simile to the subject under discussion, the speak- er add-that'in business, instead of | direct contact, one had a inter- mediary the compradoro. whilst socially the East and the West did not come together. It was impos- sible to adapt what was diametric ally opposed in point of view and intellectual make-up. The Eastern- er considered that Western civilian tion had taken away the art of living of which he knew so much, The West might be richer in some Dealing with the quotation by ways, but the standard of wealth Mr. Young of the first line of in the East was Wisdom. Whereas | Kipling's famous poem, the speaker Wertera civilisation, was character. quoted the whole verse to show ised by aggression and militarism, that the spirit of the poem was trade expansion, acquisition and wrongly interpreted by taking the materialism, class hatred and die-line from its context:- content, the greatest characteristic of the East was content and social peace. What to the West might often appear a wilderness was to the Easterner a Paradise.. Whereta fidelity to the family was a marked characteristic of the Chinese race, the tendency in the West in modern days was to a negation of all family Lies.
In eonclusion, the speaker envir- aged as opposed to an Oriental- ised milk and water" copy of Western civilisation-a China de- veloped along the lines of her own art and culture, with the West co- operating as a friend and brother.
Mankind is One.
East is East, and Weat is Weet shall and never the twain .: meet,
Till earth and eky stand presently at God's great Judgment
seat.
But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed, nor Birth
When two strong men stand face
to face, the they came from the ends of the eath i
Dr. Ashton seconded Mr. Young. and Mr. J. M. Wilson seconded Mr. Johnson.
The meeting was then opened for discussion, and interesting, contri- butions were made to the debate,
After concluding speeches by the
The Rev. J. H. Johnson, in open-leaders on both sides, the motion ing for the negative, said "that it was put to the meeting which de- was not the intention to claim that cided by 27 Votes to 21 "' that the East and the West were so Western Civilisation is not adopt- similar that they could be united, able to the Orient."
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11. To degrade.
12.-Inas.
14.--Extent.
15.-Arrogance.
17-Half an em. 18-Furniture truck.
18.-One afecting modesty. 20.-Golfer's mound. 21.-Pronoun.
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28. To frisk, 27-European mountains. 26.—A Lírd. 29.-Wrong. 31.-Cut.
24-To surface a road, 35.-Assumes attitude.
20.--Negative.
37.-Cravat..
35.-Religious pamphlet.
3.--Liquor,
40.Spanish article.
41.-Beach.
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43.--Depended.
45.-Looped.
47.-Citizens of European country.
48-To, walk...
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d. To rebuke. 7-Mineral voin. S-Devoured,
9.-Pronoun. 10.-Part of cont.
13.-To scoff. 16. Hurries. 19-Supports. 20.-Drinker. 22. To throb. 23.--Washes.
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30-Sent by post.
31. To float in air. 32-Became of us.
33. Having rounded roof 35.-Goads.
38-Old pronoun.
20-Girl's name
41.-Evil deed,
42-Enemy.
44-Sixth note of scale, 46-Conjunction.
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