BIRTH OF A NEW RELIGION.
STRIKING SPEECH BY GENERAL SMUTS.
SCIENCE REVEALS GOD.".
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Batende is perhaps the clear. ast revelation of God to our age. To be the possessor of a wealth "Man has had to come down of information about any place or from
His privileged "position subject is one thing, and to be gifted with the literary talent no- among the angels and take his oessary to make the recording of that information in book form proper place in the universe as
plaasant and interesting reading is part of the order of Nature."
another. ANY. These striking passages were
"Neither of the co-authors of Among the outstanding points of a "Hong Kong Around" and Abous" remarkable address by General claim to have both these attribute Smut on being installed as the but by their co-operation, the co operation of a man steeped 11 100th President of the British Asso-loral knowledge and folklore with ciation for the Advancement of Helenco.
The meeting was at the Royal Albert Hall and was attended by 5,000 of the leading. wientists of the Empire.
a lady of first rate literary capabil ition they have effected an admirablo partnership, and the result of their joint efforts is a most interesting and useful book on Hong Kong and the New Territories,
M. Barker, in a most modest pre faon, says Tha. book itself, makca no pretence to hoisg a completo c scholarly account of things Chinees
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seen in the Colony After ronding the work one, inclines to the belief that such A scholarly Aerobint is neither necessary or wanted, for the book provides blending of authoritative informa tion and sufficiency of true fact -with a wealth of amusing anecdote and absorbingly interesting asides, that of itself it adequately satistics a long-felt want.
Soienos," said General Smuts, "Yanks with art and religion. More and more it is beginning to make i profound aesthetic and religious ap- peal to thinking people. Indeed,. it may fairly be said that science is perhaps the pleareal revelation of God to our ago. Scienes is at last coming into its own as one of the supreme goods of the human race... "While religion, art, and science
that could occur to anyone in aro still separate values," he said,
search of information about Hong they may not always remain such. Indeed, one of the greatest tasks be Kong or the New Territories is fore the human race will be to linkafforded fair if not generous treat vp science with ethical values, and ment. It is manifestly impossible thus to removo grave dangera to give, in a book of 190 pages, a threatening our future.
complete account of, for instance, such a subject as Native Gods and Spirits, an exhaustive treatise upon which would fill many volumes, but Auch information as would
A setjous ing has already deve Joped between our rapid scientis advance and our stationary ethical" development a lag which has al- ready founil expression in the greatest tragedy of history. Science must holp to close this dangerous gap in our advanco which threatene the disruption of our civilisation and the decay of our species:
Ite final and perhaps most dim- ult task," he said, "may be found just here. Science may be destined to become the most effective drive towards ethical values and in that way zonder its most priciless human servic
Astronomers' Theory.
Coral Smuts replied to the the ory of astronomers who hold that man's fate is sealed with the runn- ing down of the solar system,
The very possibility of porcep- tion of knowledge, and science," ba anid, "depends on an intimate rela tion between mind.and the physical universe. Only thus can the con- cepts of mind come,to be a ménsura for the facts of the universe and the laws of nature come to bo rovealed and interpreted by nature's own organ of the human mind.
"Are we not, in the emergence of life and mind, witnessing the birth or revelation of a new world out of the microscopic physical universe!" he asked. I suggest that at the present cosmic epochwo are the spectators of what is perhaps the grandest event in the immeasurable history of our universe and that we must interpret the present phase of the universe as a mother and child universe, still joined togetlier by n placenta which science, in its divar- ce from the other great values, 'has kitherto failed to unravel.
"Piecing together these clues and conclusions we arrive at a world picture fuller of mystery than ever. In a way it is closer to common sense and kinder to human nature than was the science of the Nineteenth Century, Materialism has practic ally disappeared and the despotic rule of necessity has been greatly relaxed. The ancient spiritual goods and heirlooms of our race need not be ruthlessly scrapped.
Infant World..
"In the large it appears to be: a decaying, simplifying universo which attained, to its perfection of organisation in the far-distant past and is now regressing to simpler forma-perhaps for good, perhaps enly to restart another cycle of or- ganisation.
“But inside this cosmie proces of decline we notics & smaller, but far more significant movement — a streaming, protoplasmic tendency; an embryonic infant world emerg ing, throbbing with passionate life, and striving towards rational and epiritual self-realisation.
Wa soo the mysterious creative rise of the higher out of the lower, the more. from the less, the picture within its framework, the spiritual kernel in- side the phenomenal integumente of
the universe.
"In this holistic universe man is in very truth the offspring of the
Man has had to come down from his privileged position among the angels and take his paper place.ID. the universe as part of the order of Nature. Life and mind appear as producté of the comhio decline and arise like the phimsix from the asher of a universe radiating itself.
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