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Among-prewar customs; the "silly There is in London just now a season" discussion was one of the large consignment of men's ready most respectable; and I suspect that

when Dean Inge delivered the Ro-made suits that cast only a few manes lecture on May 27, he chose shillings each. They are made of his subject "The Idea of Progress," paper, and have come from Germany A fairly large snake has been with an eye to its extension to the for re-export to Africa and other found in Covent Garden by a sales newspaper columns. I have nothing man who was opening a large banana but a newspaper report of the lecture; countries which seem to be taking crate, but it will never get to the Zoo, but that report contains enough pro from Germany considerable quantit for it was killed and flung into a dust vocative matter to last.even our ies of this kind of men's wear. heap According to one of the fruit largest newspapers with material for These paper "tweeds" and "cross-1] merchants of the Garden it is no discussion for years. When anyone breds" resemble heavy, rough cloth uncommon experience for small ani speaks of "The Idea of anything. mals of warm countries to come in we may be sure that he is pos- both in appearance and "feel" In with the fruit." These specimens ing as a philosopher-philosophy fact there is nothing "papery" in are really animal stowaways which being

for ignoring | the look of them. are concealed in the bananas or Lother fruit when it is being packed.

and as they are kept in the hot hold of the ship there is nothing to pre vent them from reaching this coun try alive. "For some years," said

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or contradicting facts. Indeed, Dean Recently quite a number of Inge really seems to have lectured on

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He sets our boldly, the following three grounds on which suspicion against the Empire has been aroused antong the hour democracy, and answers each in detail-

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ability do not so often seek political distraction now as then. Marconi, for example, is certainly the intellec tual superior of Pericles, but he dues not meddle with the governing of men. With us, the superior intelli- gerces turn more and more to science; and politics, religion, literature, be- come more democratic day by day.

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the merchants here. Mr. Green that the optimists had not made it from the same source at three pairs

of miniature clear what they meant by progress," Zoo on the roof of his market. and instead of devoting himself to a Snakes are fairly common. We definition of the term, made a number have had lizards, spiders, even of assertions about dead and gone opossums. Often if the specimens human beings which do not err on are uncommon they are kept till they the side of accuracy. can be given to naturalists; but the j What does Dean Inge mean by best plan for any budding naturalists" physical progress"? Apparently he if they want specimens is to get means the development of new permission from one of the salesmen organs. or an increase in the size, to be present when the crates are strength, and beauty of old ones being opened" One of the mer

The Cro-Magnon race, which lived

But the very nervous instability of chants at present has a huge spider. perhaps twenty thousand years ago. about four inches in breadth, which was at least equal to any modern which Dean Inge so often complains has been in a cardboard box for people in size and strength; the is the very condition of that physical many months. He came over in ancient Greeks were, he supposed, progress that Dean Inge now denies. bunch of bananas and died recently handsomer and better formed than Genius and idiocy, as Havelock Ellis, It is not that the animals eat the we were." But anybody who would among others, showed years ago, fruit, but they climb in among the accept such statements in support arise from the same conditions; the bananas to hide or warm themselves, of

contention that there constant increase in insanity also is, and are too terrified to come out when had been no physical progress in this respect of most remarkable

for species the stalks are cut down. So they are in

many physical progress. For every man taken to the ship. Then, when they thousands of years" would be as who goes mad as a consequence of have been placed in the ripening! muddle-headed as Dear Inge himself. the extraordinary complexity and It came by settlement, not by war. rooms below the Covent Garden In the first place, there is no reason strain of modern conditions of life know not how There were and there are some Market, the heat gets too much for to suppose that "physical progress" there are " I aboriginal natives in Australia—them and they emerge, and usually will reveal itself in the organism to many hundreds (for 1 am writing ITS MEANING TO DEMOCRACY. very few in proportion to the area. title hunt begins if the specimen is the uninstructed eye, or that it will without any means of reference to It may be said that we dispossessed whrth it. Some years ago quite a express itself in the terms of size, figures) who remain sane; and one them. If so, it has been a large number of lizards, snakes, and strength, or contour. A big man is only remains sane by developing a case of

getting dwarf tortoises were among the not necessarily more highly developed more adaptable condition of the landlords, collections some of which were given than a smail one, or a handsome nervous system. When we remem Striking analytik and forceful a proceeding which nearer home away to ladies as pets. Many of the man than a not so handsome man. ber, as Dr. Hollander is so fond of the fact remains that saying, that a cook at the present argurent peralatan address on now aways in some circles thought reptile and animal stowaways, how. But

little- know very ever, do not come from Jamaica with

about time receives more letters than a pro- the sul "The Meaning of the rather creditable than otherwise.

have fessor did a century ago; who we re- the fruit, but are brought aboard the the Cro-Magnon race; we Empire po the labour Democracy" delivered Lefore the Reval Colonial "An Empire which is the result of ship at ports after they have left a few skulls and bones of that race, member, as Dr. Whitehead remarked Institute in London be the chairman, force, and the embodiment of militar-Jamaica. This has been discovered from which we may infer the size

wonderful than Sir Charles Lucas HUD, R.COLG,ism, en only held together as long because many smaller snakes have and strength of the individuals But who, it all de renombored, visitējas tire is sufficiency of force for anived at Covent Garden with their we know, nothing of the internal Australls and New Zealand in 1999 the purpose. The late war was a fangs drawn, presumably by natives organs of the Cro-Magnon race, no mechanical inventions the fact that the districts 15 which thing of its nerous system, nothing children of ten can do long addition as head ofthe Domitians division o supreme test of Empires-whether | of

arc "Icund. Ameng of its susceptibility to disease. Dean sums (which in their time required the Colonial Office.

they were founded on the rock of they

they intellectual abilities of the highest freedom and consent or the shifting bananas from the Canaries sell Inge certainly tells us that sands of force. Our Empire is not lizards, called "echos," are fre had as large brains as ours." and order), we get an indication of faz short of one-fourth of the land quently found. They are from three leaves us to infer that they were in- where we must look for physical! surface of the world It is composed to five or six inches in length, of tellectually equal to us and him, progress" It is not immediately to of the most diverse elements, lands, crab colour, and have fanshaped fect. But the slightest knowledge of the the development of new organs climate, races, regions. Every evil At present one is roaming about the localisation of brain function will (although brain research may reveal agency was set at work to stir up ripening cellars avoiding capture. prompt us to look for physical them as it perfects its means, and strife-urigus, lies, gold. How The most interesting visitors, how progress not in the gross volume of extends its range, of enquiry), but to (b) It was supersed to be the would it have been humanly passible ever, which so far come to Covent the brain but in its distribution. A the development of new qualities, special perquisite of the capitalist for the purple of these Ilands fight Garden, are two Australian opossums, brain in which the frontal lobes pre- perhaps even new powers, expressed class, to have been acquired and toting for their lives to heid. it all by about the size of small rais. For dominate is a higher type of brain- by those organs that we must look be maintained in the interests of the force? Wit has been the record? some time they formed the principal although its gross weight and size for "physical progress"and to the few.

They all come in to uphold the Em attraction to the miniature Zoo on may be less than that of a brain in fact that activities which were once (c) It was supposed to be in sem pire of their o free will came in, the roof, where they played about in which the lateral and posterior lobes limited to a few picked intelligences Bort a device of the few for divertingin the words of the Australian states their cage. Other finds among the predominate. Without going beyond are now the common exercise of public attention and public money

man, "to the fart man and the last fruit which are quite common are all the lobes of the brain, actual physical many."

Dean Inge complained that "opti- from the needs of the home de chilling."

Kinds of butterflies, dragonflies, and progress can be demonstrated by a -mocracy by encouraging rainglorious

“The seed cround-on which the unknown winged insects These do mere inspection and measurement of mists had not made it clear what they meant by progress, and they might and expensive schemes zb.rut.

Empire i dis that the Empire not live long, for the cold ends their a series of skulls.

But the proof of physical progress suspect that the vagueness of the "On these grounds it intended a capitales job, for the benefit of littering career before they can te

is first to be sought not in the idea was one of its attractions." Bat that democracy had no use for the few, not the many. What acclimatised.,

organism but in the environment of he, the Fessimist (a curious philosophy Empire. What are the answers, if have the people to do with it? Wan

it. It is obvious enough that the for a Christian) has not defined it, if he asks, and cotidies

da the people get from it? It is true thatthe Empireis to a large degree thir

cannot possibly be held by force environment in which we live calls I may accept the newspaper report "The militarism argument that result of trade and a ading companies what of Canadian com, Australian for far more adaptability of the as being accurate in this respect: be Empire is the product of force is. I and that trading companies are com wool, New Zealand meat, new homes organism than did the environment has not even indicated a likely field think, largely due to the word Empire.sed in each case a limited sum under the old flag, and so forth? of the Cro-Magnon. Indeed, it was of enquiry, or a technique of enquiry. One of the weaknesses of democracy ber of rien.

But what is the objet The present distinguished High Com- precisely because the Cro-Magnon Of how variations arise, and are pro- is a tendency to be dominatully words tier to trade and traders? Mea missioner of the Commonwealth, Mr. did not adapt himself to changes pagated, he seems to be ignorant; he

women are net angels,

be hamstring all their propaganda - by and phrases. A great philosopher and

crite may

reasonably ter of Australia; before he went to

the adaptability of clinging to the present monogamic has said that words me wise men's or devils: they are burne Fisher, was three times Prime Minis that he died out. Physical progress certainly refers to the Eugenists (who counters, then e reckon by and human beings rately from one Australia he was an Ayrshire minersought in them, but they are the money of metre alone. The ordini Sir Joseph Cook, by origin a Stafford the organism as in the develop system of marriage, which has no

breeding), but .fools.'

Dancerzee is, or wholly, like the ordinary workman, wants shire minet, has also been Prime ment of new organs; and, in the necessary relation to the science the new practice of composed of wise men and words to better himself. Qulie gig 19% Minister of Australia. Mr. Hughes absence of research into compart are too or en tüken vots counters, But it does not follow that he does rose from the ranks. They were the ative adaptability, it may be inferred denounce but as sterlinks con.

not want also to better his country-mark you they went out to from the relative complexity of the subsidising the unsuccessful by taxes betree themselves, and they did. But environment. Merely to live in Lon extorted, from the industrious," as cacogenics erected into a principle." "Empere made a loger, as and his people. though all Empires were made on What is the meaning of this per they also bettered the land to which don, for example, is a feat beyond

"the unsuccessful the same list like so many regula-petual contrast between the few and

they came. Ask them whether the classical Greeks: while only those whom Dean Inge roughly dis-i tion boots. Empires differ in kind the many? The few are some of the they went and the land from which the powers of the Cro-Magnon or But it is at least conceivable that With the Cro those among whom variability is living in it. according to the peoples who make many; the few are more necessary to Australia is the perquisite of the fee supernatural beings can earn their misses as

and of the capitalists. or own them. Not only is there the many than the many to the fee::

"The third objection," he said, "is. Magnon, the power of custom was most common, who reveal at least: greater than the that "moral improvement" that Dean more than one kind 6 Empire, bet and the future of democracy depends there is more than one kind of force. upon recognising the fact. How can that the Empire has diverted money enormously As the war has taught us, there is the people rale except by choo and attention wanted for the better ability to make improvement to his Inge also denies. By the very nature ing representatives or delegates ment of home conditions. It is true condition; while, with us, the situa- of the case, morality imposes limit- righteous force. Without righteous that is by choosing the few? How that the Empire has cost money, but tion is for all practical purposes re- ations, probibitions; there are things

to can there be an army fitnout force all communities

if has also brought in money. It is versed. We are capable of making that a moral man will not do even unsuccessful" true that it has from time to time revolutionary changes in our environ to save his life, and the fact that nothingness. What is the use of officers?

"When I am asked, What is the involved us in war, in the course of ment by what is often a quite small there are so many laws if they are not enforced? How

temp can they be enforced without mem- Rood of the Empire-what do we get three centuries, but without it we change of method of procedure. And people is reasonably indicative of bers of the force-policemen? from what has it done for us? must have had wars, and should really one does get tired of this con- the fact that they resisted

"But now let us come to the answer: (1) For good or ili the probably have been far less able to ventional enthusiasm for the Atheni- tation," and have preferred honest an Greeks: "He would be a bold poverty. Certainly without analysis questionHow far is the British British race would have it so, (2) survive them without our Empire. Empire the result of force, and how Toe Empire is not to be judged by

"If the Empire had done nothing man who should claim that we were of the types comprised in the un- far is it held by force? I am not profit and loss. I for one will never going for one moment to maintain appeal to the pockets of my fellow else the fact that it has brought the intellectually equal to the Athenians successful" class, without regard to that force has not played a great citizens. There is one standard only British race into contact with all or superior to the Romans." The fact the historical creation of poverty in part in the history of the Empire, by which to try the actions and the sorts and conditions of mankind and is, of course, that we have a larger this country we are not justified in thap Athens even in her glory successful" people. The idea of sufficient justification for it." but I am concerned to maintain that institutions of the children of men, thereby widened our outlook is number of men of first-class intellect censuring by the lump the un- dreamed of: but Dean Inge's opport progress entails the establishment to speak wholesale of the Empire as and that is the standard of justice

urities of observation are unnaturally of the necessary conditions of pro- the result and embodiment of and of truth. militarism is wholly untrue.

manifest differences between Athenian Dean Inge seems to have ignored in limited by his occupation. There are gress for its realisation a fact which doubt wars have contributed largely

and modern civilisation, chief of which his preference for pessimism.-The to the acquisition of Empire. But

is the quite obvious one that men of New Age what gave us Australia, for instance?

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