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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1931.

A HUNDRED YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS

"Scientific World Picture of To-day."

BY GENERAL SMUTS.

His Presidential Address to the British Association.

("Continued from yesterday, and concluded.")

'DON'T KISS THE

BABY."

A Visiting Medical

Officer's Campaign.

THE

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Dr. Churles Craster, public health officer of Newark, New Jersey, the city which claimed last year to be the healthiest city in the whole of America, has arrived Jal Southampton. He has come to lead England to

a campaign against kissing.

"Ninety per cent; of diseases, en- ter the human body through the mouth," he said in an interview. From the point of view of physics, verse, and that we must interpret"therefore it follows that kissing dan life and mind are thus singular and the present phase of the universe as must be ruled out as a very.

a mother and child universe, still gerous practice. Children contract exceptional phenomena, not in line

joined together by a placenta which such disease as measles, diphtherin, with the movement of the universe

divorce from philoscarlet fever, and whooping-cough Recent astronomical science in its as a whole.

sophy, has hitherto failed to un-very easily by kissing each other theory has come to strengthen this

or by being kissed by adults. view of life as an exceptional fea-ravel.

Piecing together these clues and "In my home city every baby is ture off the main track of the un-

at a world presented with a bib by the health For the origin of our planet-conclusions, we arrive

with tho picture faller of mystery than ever. department Inscribed ary system is attributed to an un-

common words 'Don't kiss me; I don't want in a way it is closer to usual accident, and planets such as ours with a favourable environment zerse and kinder to human nature to be sick.'

"A certain amount of kisaing science of the ክግን። the for life are taken to be rare in the than

even ninteenth century. Materialism has among adults may be unavoidable, universe. Perhaps we may

disappeared, and the but colde, influenza, pneumonia, say that at the present epoch, there practically is no other globe where life is at despotic rule of necessity has been and certain forms of paralysis are the level manifested on the earth. greatly relaxed. in ever varying very easily contracted from kiss-

degree the universe is orgánic and ing. Our grigin is thus accidental, our

"Why women who go out to after- position is exceptional, and our fato holistic through and through. Not

only organic concepts, but also and noun teas want to kiss each other is seated with the inevitable run-

even more so, psychological concepts when they arrive and when they ning down of the solar system. Life

are becoming necessary to elucidate leave passes my comprehension.". and mind. instead of being the na

Dr. Craster said he was willing the facts of science. tural flowering of the universe, are thus reduced to a very casual and inferior status in the cosmic order. meaning and a far deeper A new poignancy are given to Shakes- peare's immortal line:

verse.

"We are such stuff

And while the purely human to meet in public debate. Dr. concepts such us emotion and value, Josiah Oldfield, of London, who purpose and will, do not apply in the recently declared that kissing was natural sciences, they retain their not injurious, upimpaired force in the human sciences. The ancient spiritual

As dreams are made of; and our goods and heirlooms of our race

little life

I rounded with a sleep." According to astronomy, life is indeed a lonely and pathetic thing in this physical universe-a tran- sient and embarassed phantom in an alien, if not hostile, universe.

Depressing Conclusions.

need not be ruthlessly scrapped. The great values and ideals retain their unfading glory and derive from a new interest and force cosmic setting. But in other res pects it is u strange new universe, impalpable, immaterial, consisting not of material or stuff, but of or- Such are some of the depressingganisation, of patterns or wholes conclusions from recent astronomi- which are unceasingly being, woven more complex or to simpler cal theory. But in some respects to they have already been discounted designs. in the foregoing. For even if life be merely a ferrestrial phenomenon. in an alien it is by no meana environment, if. as we have reason

to think, this

Offspring of the Stars.

in the large it appears to be a decaying, simplifying universe which attained to its perfection or organ-

is an essentiallyisation in the far distant past, and

organic universe. In its

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the

organic

if

i now regressing to simpler forma perhaps for good, perhapu only

to restart another cycle of organisa- netual- tion. But inside this cosmic pro- In-cess of decline we notice a smaller but far more significant movement

one

aspects the universe is on the way life and mind. even

goal

bean has

ly

at reached only significant point in the universe, The potencies of the universe are fundamentally of the same or der as is actualities. The universe might say in the words of Rabbi Ben Ezra:

streaming, protoplasmic ten- dency; an embryonic infant world emerging, throbbing with passionate life, and striving towards rational and spiritual self-realisation.

We see the mysterious creative! "All I could never be

rise of the higher out of the lower, All man ignored in me

the more from the less, the picture This I was worth to God." Then agan, it is possible that the within its framework, the spiritual physical configurations of the uni-hermal inside the phenomenal in- teguments of the universe. Instead of the animistic or the mechanistic,

verse

are permeated with other forms of life and of spirit, of which we have no experience or concep- tion: forms of life which are not, like ours, of the hydro-carbon type, but are matched to the physical conditions which exist in parts of the universe.

other

In any case, the very possibility of science de- pends on an intimate relation be- tween the mind and the physical universe. Only thus can the con- cepts of mind come to be a measure for the facts of the universe, and vealed and interpreted by nature's

the laws of nature come to be re-

tion

the

or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, hollstic universe in which the decline of the carlier physical patterns provides the opportunity for the emergence of the more advanced, vital and rational patterns.

In this holistic universe man is

COMING SOON TO THE KING'S.

DADDY LONG KEGI

WHERE RAZOR BLADES GO.

FOX

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to

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A TOUGH JOB FOR THIS OFFICER

Boppy da Vries, fanious Dutch actress, recently arrived in The Hague; Holinná, from her successful American tour, gets a ticket for rpeeding in her new Cadillac 8, the first day of her return to her homeland.

A CHILD "DIES” TWICE."

Portsmouth, Sept. 9. The remarkable case of a child

in very truth the offspring of the who collapsed under an anaesthetic stars. The world consists not only for a minor operation, was technic- of electrons und radiations, but also ally dead for forty minutes, and was

of souls and aspirations. Beauty then revived to live another twelve and hellness are as much aspects of hours, was explained this afternoon nature an energy and entropy. Thus to the Portsmouth City Coroner (Sir "in eternal lines to time it grows," Thomas Bramsdoń). an adequate world view would find

KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

French General's Fate.

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November 14"Dear Brutus" by A.D.C., Theatre Royal.

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Miscellaneous.

To-morrow-M. C. L. Children's Fete, Volunteer Headquarters.

WANDERING IN THE WILD.

Child Lives For Six Days'

On Grass.

Sydney, Sept. 6, The amazing stamina of a four- year-old boy, Jimmy Shields, who walked into a camp at Hillston, 45 miles from his home, with his clothes torn to ribbons, and asked for "Mummy" and "Daddy," la arousing wonder here.

The child left his home on August 81, and since then has been wandering aimlessly through the tall spear grass" country living on crow foot (a.clover-like grass

BRIDE IN TEARS.

Best Man Who Forgot Certificate.

Paris, September 6. Gen. Jacquemót, a member of the Superior Council of War, died last night as the result of having been struck by lightning during the own organ of the human mind.

army manoeuvres now taking place The inquiry was into the death, in the Grenoble region. Besides science, we have other

A wedding at Ashlagton, North- them all in their proper context fn of Edward William Cook, the seven- forns of this Inner rein-

Gen. Jacquemot was one of the umberland, had to be postponed be between the mind and the framework of the whole. And year-old son of William Albert most eminent of French soldiers. cause the best man forgot to brink

evolution is, perhaps, the only way Cook, an universe, such

able seaman, of Mon- | In 1926 he was commander of the the certificate. music, art and religion. The of approach to the framing of a mouth Road, North End. human spirit is not a pathetic consistent world-picture which Dr. R. C. MacPherson,, medical wandering phantom of the universe, would do justice to the immensity, superintendent at St. Mary's Hos but meets with spiritual hospitality the profundity and the unutterable pital, said the child ceased to

everywhere. Our mystery of the universe.

breathe under the anaesthetic. Arti- Such in Yague outline la the ficial respiration and restoratives world-picture

which science falling, he decided to open the walls seems to me to be painting. We of the abdomen and diaphram and may not all agree with my render-massage the heart.

and

response

poetry, 18

deepest thoughts and emotions and endeavours are but responses to stimuli which come to us, not from

an alien but from an essentially friendly and kindred universe.

to

Fourth Army Corps, after having The bride, in tears, was immedi been in 1925 Principal Secretary ately taken home, and the men had at the Ministry of War. In 1923 to comfort the women relatives, he was commander-in-chief of the who broke down and cried Rhineland Army, On reaching this hysterically. post he was made a member of the Superior Council of War. He held, among many other decorations, the

Grand Cross of the Legion of READING (ENG.) TO READING

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Major, F. J. Sainsbury, Mayor of TURKISH GIRLS' NEW AMBITION. Reading, left Southampton recent ly in the White Star liner Olympic

ing of it, which Indeed does not After a few minutes the heart Honour. So far from the cosmic status of claim to be more than a mere sketch began to pulsate rapidly and strong- And even if it were generally ly, respiration was resumed, and life and mind being degraded by the Dewer astronomy and physics, I accepted, we have still to bear in the breathing became regular. The would suggest an alternative inter-mind' that the world picture of to-child recovered sufficiently to be. pretation of the facts, more in at-morrow will in all probability be removed from the operating theatre cord with the trend of evolutionary very different from any which could to the ward, where he died twelve sclence. We have seen a macro- be "sketched to-day..

hours later from status lymphati- scroplc universe barn or revealed to

éus, accelerated by administration consciousness out of a prior micro-

red heavily in miles of Wales of the anaesthetic and shock. scopic order of a very different seared heavily in prize awards at The child was actually dead forty character. Are we not, in the the recent exhibition at Victoria, minutes before he revived, the doc emergence of life and mind, wit Entered only in the short porn tor said, and he believed be recover- nessing the birth or revelation of cattle cluss, the "EP" Ranch at ed sufficiently to recognise his a new world out of the macroscopic High River, Alberta, captured the mother. physical universe.

Grandest Event In History.

grand chandalan pennant and 26 Death by misadventure was the serve senfor champion cow, junior verdict. champlon cow,,, nind additional

I suggest that at the present epoch of the cosmic' process we are firsts, one second, three thirds_and] Cinas hatred is rapidly dying the spectators of what ls. a fourth to make almost a clean out, because more and more people perhaps the grandest event in the sweep of the class in which the realise that there is only one class. Immeasurable History of our unleattle compótod

Mr. Geoffrey Gilbey,

Eo many Turkish girls have re-on his way to Beading (Penn.) to cently shown a desire to go to sea convey the greetings of the English as captains and engineers that the town to its American namesake. Merchant Marine School at Stam-Major Sainsbury is the bearer of boul has decided to open a branch a clock made, it is stated, out of for women aspirants. The first oak from St. George's Chapel, Wind students will be enrolled this year. cor, as a gift from Rotarians in tho biscuit town to their fellowa In Antorica,

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Society to-day consists of a num- ber, of widely-scattered ostriches) which, with their heads buried in a Are Socialists accepting every patch of sand, ars, exclaiming zin a consequence of the Machine Are muffled tone that theirs is the only even the obliteration of the best of patch of cand which it is really the English heritage, so casually as worth, while for anybody to bury Gradgrind once accepted naked chil their heads in--Lord Eustace dren crawling in the galleries 'of Percy.

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