THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY,
31, 1985.
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Legacy To Posterity
PROSPECTS OF THIS CIVILISATION
MAKING LIFE TOO EASY
Sir Thomas Oliver, in his 'pre sidential address at the annual Keneral meeting of the institute of Hygiene in London said 300 to 500 years had been the average duration of some of the civilian- tions of the past.
"If history repeats itself, does) a similar fate await the civilian- tion of the ago in which we livo?
"Nations, like individuals, grow old and show signs of decay, but thero is the opinion that, owing to freer international communica- tions, the shortening of distances and the wide applications of the victories of science and their re- juvenating reaction upon mankind, not only will racial decline be
the march postponed, bui elvilisation will continue,
of
"The fall of nations was not al- ways due to senility or to the pro- longed tenure of a high position. It was sometimes due to endemic disease, as has been attributed the decline of Greece to malaria.
"In other instances, the ex- cresences of civilisation ontri- buted to their decay. It is to this circumstance that the fall of Rome has been ascribed; so that with our knowledge of the effects of the unrestrainer excesses of the Mother City and her far-flung Em- pire there is a feeling that the fate which befell Rome need not necessarily overtake modern civil!. sation.
"But let us ask ourselves: atel there any instances on record of any nation having profied by the experience of another?
"Extravagance, luxury, and the thirst for wealth are in our day more universally distributed; and -a8 Fegards the harmful Influence- of those is history likely to prove; falsc? Are these racial weak- nesses likely to lift civilisation to a higher status; or must there be a halt, a lessening of these allure- ments, and a return to a simpler life and to all that was best in a past which made possible the civi fisation of to-day?
"It comes to this-Are the con- ditions which are operative at present oreating a higher type of man than that of past centuries? There may be a higher average of intelligence, but are there as many, units of high altitude?
DANGER OF THE MACHINE "Legislation is fostering greater measure of social comfort and is lessening the hardships of toil. In Industry physical bur- dens have beon lightened by the use of machinery: in commerce results are obtained. by ready means to an end; and in banking, by the use of mechanical devices, mental effort is. discounted and fewer clerks are required.
Unless an operation, abortly to be performed, is successful, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, world-famous teacher of blind Helen Keller, will herself be plunged into total blindness, Miss Kallar (left) now is the comfort of the woman who was her "yes" for so many years. They are shown in photo.
Mrs. Violet Van Der Elat, British millionaire'sTM wifo," is can tinuing her campaign for abolition of capital punishment unaided, and without much encouragement, despits fallurs of her "sitting strike": She parked her car in front of prison where a condemned man was being held, broadcasting attacks on authorities by loud. speaker, and refused to leave until police moved her and car by force. She hired demonstrators to parade before other prisons.
ler than the average, yet (how Australian brothers and sisters over much this may apply in in-whereby a new race is arising: dividual cases) the fact remains not so much as a result of man's "Forty years ago I knew in-that it is the people and racea interpolation as by the action of timately in the North of England with the larger brains who are in natural agencies such as environ. the treasurer of a large commercial the van of civilisation.
ment and climate.
"We cannot but admit that be- firm who could correctly add up
"During recent years the hours yond human ingenuity there is a the three columns of figures in n
ledger simultaneously. He did this regularly..
of toil all-round-have-been higher power in operation than gradually reduced, and, so far, all man's will and to which the lat
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Sir Arthur and Lady Do Cras are pictured bare se thay arrival in America during a world cruise. He is the founder of the world's Pasumatic tyre industry and a member of one of Britain's well- known families. Long-time member of Parliament, Sir Arthur it was who played host to George V. of England at his Sussex home, when that monarch was recovering from illness 'in 1929.
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to the good. There must be limits, ter must submit. Evolution is future generations than we had eases has enabled myriads of lives "Some of my hearers might con- however, to the reduction of the modus operandi of the power hoped for, the same cannot be of natives to be saved, alder this to have been a mis-hours as a sound and economic behind the universe, and when said of medicine. There is not tropics have been made compara- spending of an arithmetic gift but problem commensurate with in- man interposes the action should the slightest doubt that general tively safe for the white races to the utilisation of a gift can never dustrial efficiency and foreign not be construed as an interfer-anaesthenia and antisopsis have live in.
These are. some of the real be an abuse of it,
competition.
ence with its plan, but as undone more for mankind in the last "Increased leisure docs
contury than all the centuries gifts, which this age, through re- not effort in co-operation.
the A wider knowledge of here of
medical profession,
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"How many comptometer clerks necessarily mean increased hap- "If from the arts, which are as rolled into one since the Chris- search and the heroism of mem- LADIES'
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up fairly rapidly and correctly two columns of figures at a time?cupation is more tiring and exag-iife, there is less to hand on to equatorial and sub-cquatorial dis-are handing on to posterity." Since the machine is doing all perating than the fatigue of work.
"There are occasions in which
the work, there will be less call life may be made too easy. The upon the mental alertness of the great nations of the past and pre- clerk.
sont were renred in conflict and not in idle leisure, and the
remark Bame
in- applies to dividuals.
"Youth keeps challenging the" right of its seniors, and is jealous of them; while the seniors are on-
"By having our brain spared, and by getting things done for us by mechanical means, the op- portunity of learning to do things for ourselves and by ourselves will be lessened. Can this bo vicus of the physical strength of ultimately for the future good of the younger men and of the pos sible opportunities in front of
the race?
"The main purpose of the brain them. The conflict will continue, la to give enjoyment of life. Sir and if the movement is given too Arthur Keith unhesitatingly states much rope and the elderly have that civilisation has not added to to step aside consequent upon the the size of the brain anything incessant demands of youth and since long before the days of its growing numbers, then, owing -Greece and Roma.
to the increased longevity of the race, thore will be a larger num- There is reason to believe, in bor of aged people for the State fact, that the opposite is occurring and the taxpayer to maintain. ·
amongst modern poople, and he
gives as an illustration of this
the diminution in the average size
of the brain of a race in India,:
being less in modern times than it
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"To some extent man can alter the course of evolution, as wit-
was in Modanjodars, an ancient лева the improvement in the
years
city of India, dating back 5,000 breeds of domesticated animals, by applying knowledge of the facts of heredity and the result of Mendolism; but just to what ex tent man can alter by his own efforts the physique and mentality of the human race it is difficult to say, is 2M GUNANY
VALUE' OF BIG BRAINS While it is not maintained that intellectual ability is proportion (the sito of the brain, since this fran ima boon found in mon dis- Inguished in the arts, solence. And yet, under his eyes are #nd Htorature to have been amal occurring physical changes in our
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