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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929.

LECTURE BY. FATHER

GALLAGHER 7

RELIGION AND SCIENCE

This evening, ladies and gentle

has established Bode's Law and Keppler's laws. It has fixed the |laws of light and by those laws. has been able to calculate the dis- |tances of stars.

2. Biology, Botany, Zoology have, because of the wonderful

8. Anatomy and physiology show what' a marvellous machine the human body is both in its structure and in its functional ac- tivities.

the patient's family. To the EXISTENCE OF GOD latter plea the Magistrate pointed out that, there was only the mother, unless the doctor could produce the father-obviously not always so simple as it appears. Under all the circumstances there may be a certain amquiit' of sym- Continuing the series of lec-similarities, and equally wonder- pathy with the doctor, but medical tures on Religion and Science, the ful differences in the cells, plants practitioners, like the ordinary in-Ray, Fr. R. Gallagher, S.J., gave and animals, been able to reduce dividual, art, presumed to know an address at St. Patrick's Hall these things to definite and clearly the law on all and everything con- last evening on "The Religion of distinct groups. cerning public health. It is not Te-day and the Science of To- difficult to imagine how easily the morrow." He said:- discase of small-pox might spread were doctors to fall in their duty of reporting to the medical men, I am going to show that authorities cases to which they Religion, ie, the relation that 4. Chemistry and physics have are called in the exercise of their exists between man and God, is done for the molecule, atomas, profession. In the case under re- not necessarily based on the ions and electrons what Botany view the Chinese doctor may be authority of others, but that man has done for the plants, Zoology said to have been fortunate in by using his senses and his intel- for the animals. being called upon to pay only a lect is forced into accepting the

Regularity nominal fine. But the warning to fundamental truth of all religion,

In whatever branch they specia all Chinese doctors cannot be dis- the existence of God. I am not lise scientists look for plan and regarded, and it is as well for the denying that man can and that design. Their whole striving is general safeguarding of the com- man does make an act of Faith to reduce phenomena to lawa dia- munity in outbreaks of epidemics in the existence of God. All I coverable from the manifestations that that warning should be assert is that, prescinding from of the phenomena themselves. taken. The Medical Department all authority, the human intellect [This is a senseless proceeding un- has quite enough to contend with, is capable of arriving at a certain; less they are prepared to admit, owing to the tendency of the definite knowledge of the exist which they are, that in the world Chinese masses to smother up ence, and to a limited extent of the there is an order or orders govern- cases of small-pox, without being nature of God.

ed by laws. The order in con-

handicapped further through sins Philosophy divides the arg- stant. -

down to

Because of a slight deviation throw light on the pathway which strength of them. Neither of the from its normal course the planet the State must pursue in order to two men has quoted the argu- Uranus enabled two men, Lever- book, pub-rier of France and Adams of Eng- reach the goal that has been pro- menta correctly. In mised to humanity-the millen-lished in 1928, F. H. Hayward land, to work out by pure mathe nium-William S. Campbell. sums up the whole Catholic posi-matics, quite independently of tion in five paragraphs on one one another, the position of the

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of omission on the part of Chinese ments into three kinds: 1. Astronomy: In our solar sys- doctors who ought to know better. "Metaphysical:"based on self tem astronomers are able to cal- evident Arst principles as the culate very many years in ud- Principle of Casuality, the Prin-vance, not merely that there will ciple of Sufficient Reason; 2. be an eclipse of the sun, but they Many a world power has gone "Phvalcal:" arguments drawn are able to tell exactly the path of ruin because of the from the phenomena of nature, the shadow, and fit beforehand failure to recognise the scientific the content of experience; 3 telescopic cameras so accurately balance between Church and "Moral" based on the general that at the moment of totality--- State. The State without the conduct of mankind.

sometimes only a matter of a few Church is a blind leader. The In this lecture I shall use the seconds--photos of the pheno- State dominated by the Church second kind, specifically the argumenon can be secured. They did has been an autocratic tyrant. ment from design, to prove the so in England two years ago and The Church, to be helpful to the first part of my thesia; and the are going to do the same in State, must dwell in that purer argument from the principle of Sumatra this year. Tranaita mental atmosphere which is the casuality to prove the second part of Venus and Mercury can be cal-

From this And. in these days when we abode of Spirit.

Within the last two years both culated with absolute accuracy in "secret place of the most High" these arguments have been cited the same way. The next will be have in the Peninsula Hotel a the Church will be able to reflect by two men who profess to do on June 8, 2004. place to accommodate even the the divine illumination that will away with religion on the most fastidious to say nothing of the wealthiest of travellers there is all the more reason why Hong Kong should be included- as indeed it almost invariably is

The driver of motor 'hus No. nage. His first paragraph reads: disturbing. cause, and so lead to in all the itineraries of the world 576, owned by the Hong Kong "That, as the universe is in exist the discovery of the planet Nep cruises. Hong Kong, indeed, has Tramways, Ltd., was yesterday ence, it must have been brought tune. Even such apparently irre

summoned before into existence at some time or gular bodies 08 comets and been universally acclaimed by all afternoon

Major C. Willson, O.B.E., at the other by a Creator." That is not meteors can be reduced to periodic. world tourists in our Colony to be Central Magistracy, for passing a the argument from contingence formulae. In 1934, according to one of the most attractive of stationary tramcar, at the junc and does not give the principle of Professor Pickering, we are to cities and well worth coming from tion

Arsenal-street. and casuality.....

have a maximum display of the Queen's-road East, on the after- ****Argument from Design the other end of the world to see. noon of January 31. Traffic Sub In a lecture delivered by, Mr.

Leonids.

Biology from the study of a Hong Kong's natural beauties, to Inspector Nicols told the Magis- Bertrand Russell at Battersea, in comparatively infinitesimal num- say nothing of the attractions of trate that the defendant's action March, 1927, before the National ber of cells is sure of its ground other places in its vicinity and in was a danger to the public. Hav- Secular Society, he gives the argu-in generalising to the cell though ing ascertained that the defen- ment from design this form: in one composite organism as a South Chins generally-Canton dant had had several years ex-"Everything in the world is made plant or the human body there and Macao especially are mag perience as a 'bus driver, his just so that we can live in the are millions of such cells, and in nets that will never fail to attract Worship remarked that defendant world, and if the world were ever the world there are countless com- and never fail to please the tour-ught to have known better, and so little different we could not posite organisms.

imposed a fine of $10.

manage to live in it. That is the

All Are the Same ist who is bent primarily on seeing

argument from design. It some- Anatomy and Physiology: It is When the driver of a public times takes a rather curious form: sufficient for a surgeon to make strange places in picturesque get-

motor car was summoned for for instance, it is argued that a detailed study of one human tings,

causing an obstruction in Hillier-rabbits have white tails in order body to give him perfect con- Quite a lot, we have sometimes street, he told Major C. Willson, to be easy to shoot. I do not know idence in performing operations flong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 14. 1929. thought, might be done to make O.B.E., that he had taken a fare how the rabbits would view the on any who require his aid. The

the Colony even more attractive to the Central Police Station, and application."

human eye, ear, muscles. nerves, on the way back the car ran out Mr. Bertrand Russell is a clever brain are the same all the world | to tourists, as in this respect we of gasolene in Hillier-street. His man, an able thinker. In the pre-over. There may be slight ac

seem to linger behind both Hono-Worship did not believe defen- face to his work "Analysis of cidental differences but essential- lulu-which is in many respecta dant's story and imposed a fine of Matter," he shows the instincts of ly all are the memb

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a great scientist, for he speaks The spectroscope shows that quite as attractive as our own fair

with modesty of the difficulty of the atoms of hydrogen on Sirius The decomposed body of a Chin-his task and of the meticulous are the same as the atoms of Colony-and Manila, which still retains much of its charm from ese man, believed to be a victim of care with which he should pro-hydrogen on this earth though the "Hainwah" disaster, was pick-ceed. Why does he shed both there are thousands of millions of the times when the Spaniards ed up off Lama Island yesterday when he talks about religion? miles between the two.

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WORLD TOURS AND TOURISTS

The arrival in port yesterday of the s.s. "Empress of Australia" and the 5.8. "Belgenland" to-mer- row on another world tour brings

to mind the importance of such a method of seeing the world and were in possessión.

thorough a

of

The world by fishing boat No. 8072-HC. It Why, instead of being intellec-

mortuary.

1.

2.

The beauty of the flowers, of

The inclination of the earth's axis-23,5—allows the maxi- nfurn of the earth's surface to be warmed by the rays of the sun.

The atmosphere is exactly

the manner in which nowadays tourist is well-worth catering for.was transferred to the Water tual, does he become shallow; and the wings of a butterfly, of the many of the great shipping com-He or she is generally a person of Police, who took it to the Kowloon why, when he should advance feathers of birds, is the same cautiously, does he indulge in flip wherever these flowers, butterflies many? panies cater for it. World cruises wealth, leisure and education, and

That argument is not or birds are found. Li Po-nam, shopkeeper of No. the argument from design.

And so we might pile proof on are, of course, no novelty, but it when they visit us it would be to

The argument from design is

proof on the constancy of nature. may be safely stated that never our mutual advantage to see that 166, Des Voeux-road Central, re-

The Order Is Useful before were they conducted in so they are really well entertained. ported to the Police yesterday, this: 1. There exists in the world that his accountant named Leung an order and an adaptation of a manner and never They travel throughout the world, Kwong-lung absconded on the very wonderful kind; 2, That before were there so many lines and unquestionably their good 11th instant after, he alleged. em-order is constant, regular and very entering upon

this particular opinion is well worth having. As bezzling the sum of $5,861.89, the useful; 8. That order is proved by

property of the shop.

all the sciences: 4, It is more com- we have stated, we think that

nlicated than the order, for in- phase of shipping business,

Hong Kong, which is always

A Vocal and Plano Recital will stance, in the works of a watch, Tours from London to New York

pleased to see the stranger in its he given by Mr. and Mrs. A. Mor, in fact, any other mechanical to some well-known point were

Bowes-Smith and Mrs: A. Har device that we know. Now: If the long ago started for those bent midst especially those travelling greaves-Browne at the Helena, smallest mechanical work de a designer adapting exclusively upon pleasure and the wide world over might take May Institute on Thursday, Febmands

into consideration the fact that ruary 21, at 5.80.p.m. Tea tickets means to a particular ends Then: sight-seeing, but such trips were,

must be booked by Wednesday. Much more does the vast mechan- lovely as are the island Advt of course, parochial compared

ism of the universe.

Let us begin with a few pre- with the world-wide tours that are and the mainland, addition

H.M.S. "Cumberland," of the liminary remarks. al charms might easily be now of practically every day oc

5th Cruiser Squadron, arrives 1. We do not assert that the effected that would

go this afternoon from Saigon, on world is the most perfect that currence. There was a time when

long way to make the world completion of southern cruise could exist. We grant that there world cruises were of rare occur

is possibility of improvement. rence--so rare, that Hong Kongtourist's stay here even more could not, and did not, expect agreeable than it invariably is. The Banque Franco-Chinoise The scheme of the world as it is has opened a permanent branch in planned, is most wonderfully We hope that private enterprise Hue (capital of Annam), more than, say a couple in a year ne

planned, it is not the most perfect that could he planned spac and sometimes not that number and the powers-that-be in the Legislative Council will seriously take.

this matter into considera

tion

Then the world tourist ship and the world tourist were indeed |something to be regarded as being

very much out of the common, and Buch visit was regarded - as no ordinary affair. Shipping com banjes make auch world cruises so

tracy very attractive and the vessel

adays are so wonderfully Bild

the tted up. who hav

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2. We do not say — 88 80 MANY An American and a Scotsman accuse us of saying that the ar were speaking about the intense gument from design, taken by cold in the North of Scotland. itself, proves that the designer was But it's nothing to the cold fall-powerful or that he created the we get in the States, protested universe. It is sufficient in the the American. "Why I can re first part of the proof to show member one winter a sheep jump that to explain the order that does ing from a hillock into a field exist there must have been, an became frozen on the way, and it intelligent originator. morgen stuck in the air. like a block of 8 We do say that science and ice. the theory of evolution help in a mon, d'ye expect me tae wonderful way to establish our belle you said the Scot dourly theals.

wouldna alow In the se

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4.

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'suited to man, or, if you pre- fer man is perfectly adapted to the atmosphere which sur- rounds him.

Man and the animals breathe ∙in' oxygen" and breathe out » carbon-dioxide, plants on the other hand absorb carbon- dioxide and give off oxygen- compensation.--|iy|

Water is the only liquid that Is densest before it drops tò freezing point. If that were not so the world would be a frozen mass in a short time... The eye of man, Condor, spider, bat are all suited to their requirements.

Countless other phenomena show exactly the same thingi

symbiosis, the adaptation of planta, animals and of man himself to the climatic condl- tions in which they happen to find themselves...

The wonderful Instinct dis played by the insect and