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POSSIBLY REALLY A SICKLE: THEORIES OF LIFE
ANCIENT EGYPT
"Even a Bishop would be much A break with Faraday's tradition mora angry if he were told he was in regard to the Christmas lectures no gentleman than if he were told for juvenile audiences at the Royal he was no
Christian," declared Institution Was made by Mr. Dean Inge to the IncorporatedS. R. K. Glanville, of the Egyptian Society of Assistant Masters in Department at the British Museum, Secondary Schools, in Bristol. in the subject chosen for the course
The ideal of a British-gentleman, of his six lectures:-- he said, had been for conturles the lay religion, the week-day religion of a great part of our nation, and it embodied those qualities which were most distinctive of our national character.
Sacred Ideal "The only unpardonable sin In Britain is to be a cad-that is to say, to fall short of the standard of honour to which all gentlemen have to conform," said the Dean, "The ideal is so sacred to us that we don't like to talk about it or appeal to it.
"How things were done in an- clent Egypt."
For over a hundred years the lat shows that the idea of exact science has been foremost in the minds of the lecturers. Archaeology, Mr. Granville pointed out, is the very opposite to an exact science; and Egyptology is the weakest of its tribe. There was, however, a de- finite scientific purpose in the course. It was interesting to every- one, he maintained, to know all about ancient Egypt, from which we had derived so many things, in- cluding our own alphabet.
It seems almost indelicate to drag it out. If we lose this-and The Egyptians had a great litera- writers like Wells and Bernard ture, but not one that was read in Shaw are never tired of girding at schoola, and still leas in the home. it-we lose the sheet anchor of our The best way to get to know about national character. We lose what, them was from their for
plc- most Britons, is the re-
but tures,
they were not ligion of their heart, whatever easy to understand without an other colours they wear on their Introduction, and the sleeves."
average person who had not made special study of the subject was in. clined to think, that the Egyptians went about with their shoulders out of joint and their eyes at the side of their head.
But if they would accompany him through this course of lectures ha thought they would agree with him that the Egyptians were human beings, in all essentials very like ourselves.
An Absurd Cult Discussing the essentials of a gentleman, the Dean asked if gentle birth was one of them.
The whole cult of old familles was perhaps rather absurd. At
any rate, it had decayed very rapid ly in the last hundred years. Only a very few of our noble families had shown unusual ability for more than two generations.
of
To this day the Heralds' College would give no certificate gentility to a tradesman. There was no sort of reason why a gentle- man should not be a working farmer, or any other sort of work ing man.
The moral qualities which be longed to the British ideal were truthfulness, courage, justice, and fair play, abhorrence of meanness and crooked dealing, and respect for the personality of all human |beings as such.
"Contempt for the intellectual side of life is making the upper. classes, as such, both useless, under new conditions, to the com- munity, and helpless to keep their
own position.
"It is a vulgar mistake; it implies a want of sensibility to the higher and finer values of life.
"The beefy fox hunter who never opens 4 book is a pathetic anachronism only fit for a museum of fossils. It is on this side that our upper classes idea! needs most vigorous criticism."
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Importance of the Nile Beginning with the elementary human need for food, the lecturer showed how the Nile was the essential introduction to everything in Egypt in both ancient and modern times for agriculture, for transport, for monuments, for boat- building, and even for supplying a number of the houses. Egypt, he explained, receives practically no rain, and if it were not for the The ancient and modern methods of LICENSEE & WIDOW periodical overflowing in Septem-watering the vines were, said the ber of the Blue Nile-so named lecturer, very much the same, "ex from the colour of the mud it casts cept that now they use petrol tius £100 Damages Awarded up-agriculture would disappear. Instead of jars." The oll and the The land has been formed by the wine were sealed up in jars with flooding of the Blue Nile for mand seals; on which the name of hundreds of years, the river bring the property was stamped, such as licensee of the County Cricket Mr. Henry Thomas Marriott, ing it fresh soil instead of mahure. "Oil of the glorious house of Seti." Ground Hotel, Northampton, who is When the Nile falls in September,
The marshy banks of the Nilo well known among Third Division the banks are rapidly appropriated supplied plentiful game, and by the farmers for the sowing of early device for capturing ducks in all parts of the country, was the an footballers and to county cricketers their crops. As soon as the water was, said the lacturer, of particular defendant in a breach of promise leaves the fields there is no more interest, as it had survived almost water until next year, and the unaltered to the present day. It Northampton Assizes.
case heard in the Civil Court at natives have to carry out local consisted of two nets placed horl-ordered to pay £100 damages to irrigation from the pools and wells,zontally one each side of the birds' Mrs. Louien Hussey, a widow, who
which keeps them busy all the year
round.
haunt, amidst the rank growth of the marshes, and they were pulled Instantly to a horizontal position, enclosing the ducks, by the conceal
fowlers.
All this work of Irrigation de manded a tremendous amount of organization, and called for a know-ed ledge of geometry, which was one of the exact sciences of which the Egyptians had a knowledge. Just as it was necessary to our Lan cashire cotton trade that we should govern the Sudan properly, and have control of native labout, ac OS to ensure good seed, so it was essential that the Egyptians should have control of the minutest details of farm life.
The Egypilan Plough Passing to the Egyptians riml tive methods, of agriculture, the lecturer showed a picture re presenting an elementary plough, formed by a crooked plece of frood attached to a pole drawn by oxen, as used about B.C. 250. Other slides showed how the natives cut their A WEEK'S DISEASES
cern and flax, and piled up the corn During the week ended Febru preparatory to its being thresbed The sickle WEE 22 the following diseases out by donkeys. were notified to the Medical Om-originally a piece of curved wood," cer of Health:-
edged with flints, very much resem- bling an animal's jawbone, and the lecturer offered the suggestion that "the jawbone of an ass," which was used by Samson, was in reality his reaping-hook or sickle;
ary
Cases Deaths
Typhoid fever
6
2
Small-pox
18
15
Diphtheria
Intenza
Malaria
Meningitis
Tuberculosis
67
The zucst important crop after corn was the vine, and the various
On February 24 two cases of processes. of vintage were shown in small-pox were notified.
an interesting series of pictures.
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ring and a bracelet which Mr.-Mar- riott said he had lent her.
Mr. Vaughan, for Mrs. Hussey, szid his client was now 02, and Mr. Marriott was about 60.
Counsel alleged that in June of 1924 a proposal of marriage was made in Mrs. Hussey's bedroom. For five years ahe was nominally a paid servant, but actually, in all but the legal tie, she was Mr. Mare. riott's wife. They lived together openly.
In May, 1929, Mr. Marriott told her to clear out. He accused hér of bad management and Insébriety, but those allegations, sald counsel, were false. In October last year he married another woman.
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