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SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929.

OUR WEEKLY SERMON

Christian Interpretation Of History

MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS

[By the Very Rev. W. R. Inge, C.V.O., D.D., F.B.A., Dean

of St. Paul's]

THE CHINA MAIL,

PROF. W. J. HINTONa boon to him (and to the fortunate SHADOWS BEFORE.

SEVERING TIES WITH THE UNIVERSITY

AN APPRECIATION

student) if arrangements could be effected for one or Tore senior men from the University preferably one from the Faculty of Arts and one from the Faculty of Engineering to attend the Geneva School of In the newly published Journal International Studies each summer, of Law and Commerce of the in addition to having an opportunity University is to be found the follow-to spend useful time in the United ing interesting article:-

Kingdom and other places in It is among our very first tasks, Europe. The results both for the ideal man is and a most unpleasant one, on as- individual stulents and for the Allowing for the distortions caused | development of the by the tendency to concentrata deep logically certain-as certain as any auming the editorial chair, to an- University would be incalculable; and wide social movements under conclusion in which we place the w. J. Hinton, who will vacate the comprehensive knowledge of Euro- nounce the retirement of Professor such, graduates would acquire a more the name of one man, we may say most implicit faith; for instance, that history as a biography of ideas, that all men will die. This is not chair in Political Economy in the pean and Oriental, affairs which be truly international in or ideals, is not subject to the same the theory of the French Encyclo University of Hong Kong at the end would

Term of this year. character. paralysing uncertainty which in-paedists, who believed that only good of the First

it is proposed to select students forts history 48 4 narrative of laws and good education are needed Professor Hinton leaves us to as- events or a series of human bio-to elicit the natural perfection ofsume the past of Director at Studies who have completed their third year They can leave graphies.

human nature. For Spencer, each in the Institute of Bankers, London. at the University.

He will also give lectures in the in May or June, arriving at Geneva The question, however, must be generation inherits the acquired ex-

be present at the opening asked whether the processes of cellencies of the last, and, so stand- Geneva School of International in time thought, which we wish to study his- ing on its shoulders, adds new cubits Studies during this summer session of the School in July, depart from of the School, We are led to be- Europe about the beginning of torically, necessarily run parallel to its stature, till the heavens are

occupations September and return to Hong Kong with the sequence of events. Hegel, reached. We need not discuss which lieve that these are as we know, treated history as a of the two views is the more absurd after his own heart, and, if so, we in time for the opening of term in On the Fall. We can conceive of no heartily rejoice with him. grandiose scheme, the progressive and unscientific.

the other hand, we are constrained pleasanter way of spending the self-evolution of the Absolute Spirit

Dreams Become Obsolete

vacation, to record our sincere regrets upon summer

A programme in time. Contrast his dictum, The Now that the dreams of the eigh-the loss of read is the rational,' with Troeltsch's, teenth century

an inspiring teacher which at once embraces Lravel and ideologists have and a true friend to all who have study on a definite plan. Senior The historical always has an ele- become not only obsolete but un-had the good fortune to have studied students of the University (say ment of irrationality. But Hegel, intelligible, il is the more extra-under him.

University too, those in the Third or Fourth Year) like all other men. was the child and

ordinary to find TEAU FC than one will be the poorer

upon his decould enter the preparatory courses the product of his own age. He school of modern philosophy treat-parture. for Professer Hinton has at

the. Genova lived when the buoyant and roman-ing history after the manner of been unsparing in his efforts

School, while tic optimism of the French philo-naive realism, subordinating reality promote the cause of

to graduates (who are also eligible for sophes, with their dogion of human to the category of time, and re-

this institu- appointment) may enroll in the ad- vanced courses. It might be pas- perfectibility, was very much in the asserting the crudest doctrines about

We are confident that we voice sible to arrange for credit to be human progress as the very warp the sentiments of all members of given by the University for the and woof of ultimate reality. I

air.

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In spite of all that this modern i will take as my example the Italf this Society when we tender to him successful completion of courses in disciple has said to the contrary, Croce, the New Idealist, though our appreciation of the service the Geneva School, in the case of In effect, this it is surely manifest thut he as- ! am afraid maeh the same doctrine which he has rendered to the Univer, undergraduates. bunici the jurulletin of logical might be found in the New Realiasisily, to the Faculty of Arts, to the plan would be similar to the Rhodes teen poraz development. With Prof. Alexander, and even in James

Scholarships which enable selected Sumorsign dit regard ef historical deward. Crows says: From the cos-/Student body, in general, and to his students of American universities | the Canton Insurance Office Ltd.. faiz, he attempted to reconstructmi point of view, reality displays/own students in particular, during to attend Oxford for a time; in this Mesars. Jardine's offices, noon. history as the externalisation of thesef as a continual growing upon from its very beginning to the pre. Scholarships on a reduced scale.

his connection with the institution case, we shall have our own Rhodes diniectical process. But there is no half; nor can a real regress be necessary connection abatever be-

sent time, and to heartily wish him tween the two. It may often hap-which is not,

conceived, because evil, being that!

is unreal, and that every success and enjoyment in his en that the later

speakers in which 13, is always good.

as health, long Coatric new work, as well

wisdom of the earlier, and that in

throughout his days. tion, not problemati: but podcic»| this way the process of time contie The Spirit, which has effected tributes to the progress of philoso the transition from animal to human

Our idea of a fitting valedictory Colony. It is hoped that sup- phy, as it certainly has done to the life, is creating modes of life eves biography of Professor Hinton's forward and establish scholarships was to present a twenty pageporters of the University will come progress of science. But logical de more lofty. The infinity of our velopment is strictly independent of desire is the proof of the infinity of career-with special reference to the to be defrayed year by year for not history. Some, forgetting this,

seventeen years which he spent in more than three years, at present, have fat il a curious objection to progress. You observe that for the University, during which time in an amount just sufficient to cover the position which Christiane give/ Croce not only is reality mere 'be he formed one of the pillars of the the bare cost of Ifving, for the to Christ. that He lived nineteen stability of one species on one planet

but the temporary in

But we were admonish- students during their time away hundred years ago. By the same

ed against anything so ambitious, from Hong Kong. One steamship reasoning we ought to wonder whe is exalted into the law of all time is natural modesty causing a blank line has been approached to arrange ther Epstein should not be ranked He is Himself uvolving in the cosmic

If there is a God, refusal to divulge any Johnsonian for passages both ways at merely as a greater sculptor than Pheidias.

process. But this humanistic posi anecdotes to an eager Boswell. In nominal rates for such scholarship The fact is that though in tracing tivism does better without a God. spite of this, we have in mind a men. the biography of ideas we may reach Its view of life is petty and provin more able historian who we will try real knowledge, that knowledge is cial in its narrow authropocentrism, to persuade to undertake this im-admirable idea, and is deserving of not really historical, since it is in the last degree. I entirely agreelabour we hope to have adorn the are interested in the furtherance of which will be shown

dependent of the time-succession.

A Metaphysical Question This brings us question.

coming,'

and all existence.

atructure.

In our humble opinion, this is an portant task, the fruits of which the utmost support from all who with Laurence Binyon, who says:

international understanding and to our second Absorption in man as the centre of pages of our next issue.

Professor Hinton will anticipate amily. We trust that the re- Is the process of events the world and the hero of existence his departure from the University sponse to this proposal will be more in the time-series of primary or of leads certainly to loss of that sanity with a great deal of apprehension. than adequate to carry the scheme only serendary importance in philo sweetness which an openness The sudden severance from: his Chi-through; we, in our small way, will sophical and religious thought? the abiding presence of the non- nese students, after the almost daily certainly

human living world around us in- This is a purely metaphysical ques- tion, and I think it. Is to be dealluses into life. It is not by that with more fully in one of the papers absorption that we shall find the ful!. meaning or animating power of our to be read at this Conference. cannot omit it altogether in this in western faith that in man the di. troductory address, though to treat vinity is revealed."

it fully and adequately in so short

à time as I have at my disposal

Above Time and Change

I assume that no faith can call

not spare any efforts meeting of the past seventeen years, which may be of assistance in carry- will undoubtedly be a shock to his ing on the campaign to a successful well-ordered mind. As an antidote conclusion. for this disorder and as a scheme to broaden the horizon of under- graduates of the University, he is sponsoring a plan for travelling. scholarships which in our humble

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ber that my subject is the Chris- sert tian interpretation of history; and transcendent

connected with his whose activities in London and at Geneva.

International Studies The Geneva School of Interna- and the New Idealists alike--and on others like them, exclude the ideational Studies opens each year in this subject they are curiously near of such a Being, we may, I think, July and is in session through the gether is incompatible with dismiss them, not without a sense months of August and September. Christianity. For this reason, a of relief, from our consideration to-The following extracts is from the summary treatment may perhaps be day.

prospectus of the School:

it is certain, at any rate to me, that own life is above time and change. the philosophy of the New Realista Since then these philosophies and

excused.

The

But it is worth while to ask the "The idea of the courses emanat- French Doctrine

question why earnest and competented "from students. In the spring of We have seen how Hegel con- thinkers in our time have committed 1924 the representatives of a number of European national student groups, founded the logical with the his-themselves to a view of the cosmos

known 8.5 the Federation Univer- torical process of development, un- which has the disadvantage of being sitaire Internationale, met in der the influence, perhaps, of the the only view which can be definitely to form an international organisation. ace where heady French, doctrine of perfecti-and completely refuted. For wo They saw the need for a place bility. But the peculiarity of Hegel's know certainly that we men have students might study international

problems and have opportunities

for doctrine is that he conceived the dia- only a leasehold on this planet, so exchanging ideas. They asked Prof. lectical process in history as purely that the terrestrial paradise of Alfred Zimmern, their Honorary Pre- political, and as completed in his which we dream can never be ours sident, to undertake the catablish- own time and country. He gives us for long. If God is realising Him. a closed system; the Absolute, it self in the political and social in stems, had finally found himself institutions of the orb which revolves the Prussian monarchy of the between Mars and Venus, Hohenzollerns. In Fichte, on the Ragnarok awaits Him as surely as other hand, progress is a progressus the Scandinavian gods were doomed ad infinitum. The goal is known, to go down before the revolt of but will never be fully reached. Nifheim.

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over two hundred students assembled. The lectures and discussions proved so successful that it was decided to organise on a larger scale for the coming year,

course.

to learn It is supposed that we have to

The fifth session of the school was from history. The philosopher, he choose between a belief in an ever-held in the summer of 1928. 314 stu- says, 'follows the e priori thread of lasting upward movement and ac-dents of 30 rationalities enrolled and the world-plan which is plain to him ceptance of the dismal theory that were divided into two groups, a pre- without any history; and if he history has no meaning and no pur. paratory course and an advanced makes use of history, it is not to pose: that all human aspirations a group of 15 students of 10 national- From the Advanced Course prove anything, since his theses are after a better-ordered life are anities were selected to meet three already proved independently of all illusion and a mockery; that the times a week with Professor Zimmern history. Reason is incarnate in the time-process is either unreal or for discussion and special study." world, in the mind of the philoso- irrational; and that hope is a mere Inasmuch as Professor Hinton bait hung out by á Power which laughs at the heroisms of the most Nothing can be inore alien to restless and the most pitiable of all modern thought than this high a creatures. priori road to truth. But some of

pher.

Alien To Modern Thought

A Choice Inevitable

Senior Men Eligible

the next three years, it would be will be a member of the School for

dream of a wholly this-worldly in- defectible salvation which our know-

the nineteenth century scientists I hope to show before the end of ledge of the world around us and its! also adopted, and indeed in a more this address how far I am from hola-inevitable laws forbids.us seriously extravagant form, the dogma of per- ing this view, which would really to entertain. But if God is an fectibility, without, apparently, re-be pessimistic. Here I will only say eternal and unchanging Boing, He flecting how incompatible it is with this. If God is bound up with His may have finite purposes which like lexperience and with science alike, creation; if He has no life but the all finite things have a beginning, Darwin writes: 'As natural selec- life of His creatures; if the perfect-middle, and end. If He has eternal tion works solely by and for the ing of His nature depends on the life, His creatures made in His good of each being, all corporeal and continuance of those species in image need not fear temporal denta mental environments will tend to which He is striving to realise Him- If He is exalted above time, the progress towards perfection. What, self; if, Lastly, the hopes of mankind creatures of time, with their doings we may ask, has natural selection to can be realised only in history and and their hopes, may live unto Him do with "progress in the environ-on this earth; then bideed we must after their brief hour on the stage ment? Spencer, really toppling over choose between a surrender of our is ended. into absurdity, says: The ultimate hopes and aspirations, and the

[To be. Continued]

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