Man In
Reform And The Man In
Hong Kong. Mood of Is His Ethic for the
Contemplative
Moment
ime
age This condition is stable, and nothing could shake it for it is founded on notices that the world
human misery and imbecility and goes on very much as those are foundations which will
WHAT IN H.K.
poenas
Rheims did after the never be wanting," Blatchford sub- Shakespeare as a witness complicated curse in In- against Anotole France, with "What goldsby, when nobody
agon of
apprehension
Here the witness could leave the box if. well is to“) left afone, but Hamlet goes on: “And yet, to me, what is this quintessence
Inet, Man der lights not me and we are left to understand that that is the conclusion of the whole matter
The British People
And Here What?
How would auch an Analysis come out in Hong Kong, where we have a few agitators and reformers too? What are the, characteristics Demas in Hong Kong
charac-
What especially, aré teristics of our agitatora. and re- formers?
The witness has not helped the Both shrewd inteligence and case for the defendant. Philip Gibbs hoeic bravery will be szequired by is a witness who has. Some time the answerer, unless Hong Kong
he does it anonymously. ago he
e wrote a very thoughtful ar- fashion ticle arguing that the British people Probably here as at home, all these are wiser than they appear in the witnesses notwithstanding, man- kind is best described by the image mass.
seemed a penny worse. ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS
**Following curses or reforms man human to maintain his
manages
average. The Abbe Coignard says a piece of work is man”? How noble that "After reforms men are as be in reason! How infinite in faculty! fore, selfish avaricious, cowardly, In form and moving how express cruel, stupid and furious by turns.. and admirable! In action like an
THE
WORLD GOES BY
By “ULYSSES
HE following effusion arrived boastings and self-righteous asser-
an of Protes.
"They are more spiritual in unpriggish way than many of their: self-styled spiritual leaders.
Each man in his time plays many They parts and the mood of the moment
OF DEMOS
have subconscious convictions and is his ethics for the time. When he feels optimistic, optimism is the ideals.
"And yet they have a sense of only truth, and he forgets that he No doubt. humour, a kind of good humoured, has ever felt otherwise.
Periklymenos, and no doubt your cynicism of fair play, which pre--
of his exalta- T other day from a correspondent in sudden commotion, dramatically inflamed by any passion of reform, tion feels a devil of a fellow. Yet Australia. A hurried editorial encompassed in the pit that has any passion of hate, or any, wild- your rapacious landlord may be.
of the ness of revolt. conference was called to decide în been the compelled abode
in the China Mail office the tions, shall be, by the means of a vents the mass of them from being reformer, at the too
L
They are!!
what portion of the paper, if at all, Teuton, and blank amazement shall against extreme views of any kind, MR. H. G. WELLS'
readers, for what it is worth. communication is called "Transfor mation of World Power." read on.
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(These are the words that were addressed to your publication nigh on three years ago, and the day draws near for the execution there- of:)
:
NEW STAR
Time cannot wither) Mr. Wells'a
or
it should be published. The editor envisage the astonished faces so good or bad." finally decided that Ulysses should summarily and upexpectedly cast They take "hot air", as they call take the responsibility, for it, in therein and jubiliation and elation it for what it is worth, and in their spite of violent protestations on my mark the excited expression of opinion it is not worth much, part, so I pass it on to you, dear those elevated to the surrounding- At the same time Philip Gibbs
where The ramparts without,
their
and getting* says, they are angry foemen formerly lay so confidently angrier with a Government which idealism, and he has now given us Now about, thus accomplishing a World seems to play always into the hand one more variety of that fundamen- transformation. Also their aged of merchant adventurers whom they tai theme of his, the making of a monarch shall be restored with suspect of gross profits out of their saner world. In "Star Begotten" of this vision does not carry us so far warlike celebration and tumultuous labour by an artificial inflation acclamation!
prices, by refusing to sell huge on the road: towards universal san- God works as of old in accordance stocks at less than those monstrousity as it did in such books as The with this manner: "When a sword profits, and of engineering unem Days of the Comet," "Men- Like shall come upon the land, know that
ployment în order to force down Gods," "The Dream," and one The Teuton awakes to a Belliger I the Lord have sent it because ofwages and to bide their time until two more, which pose the glaring contrast between the world as it is Fall away, therefore, ent World and chafes with the your sins."
He to the Teuton, if God provokes.
and as it might be. But the road thongs of his recent bindings.
towards the new city is clearly has found a lead for his national through our sins, his invasion of
before him pointed. “A new sort of mind is pride, and his eye has flashed a de- our lands to come! For why should And none shall stand
we perish under the Rod of His in his day, who offends him with re- coming into the world, with a new, fiant gleam.
“And round about the Teutons Affliction?
sistance, nay, nor is it wise for any simpler, clearer, and more powerful Fear God only, and live upright to thus to attempt to do, thereby way of thinking," says one member land lay encircling the weapons of their foemen. In amazed distress to Him, and let us forsake our us-provoking invitation to destruction! of the small unofficial convocation "But Fate will work the will of who had met to debate the cause of they gaze beyond, while the foemin. clean living in spirit and in truth
and submit to His will as expressed God and issue invitations. There the phenomenon, which, in this ver- -holds him back.
"Now, to the
the through His Son, whose life was fore, it is wise to understand: Besion of our regeneration, is attri- if they them-given for an Example to follow as hind the Teuton works a Rearguard, buted to a ray from Mars that was Teufòng 5would say an of selves would save: Resist not the well as a ransom for sin, and perad- and a Vanguard leads before. Thus
table in some way to affect the mu- Rising Teuton, for the purpose of venture He will have mercy upon shall no sanctions stay, nor, force tations of the genes. It was faster- the Creator is to deliver them that those whom He purposes des-deflect, Il Duce's hand, nor Eng-tain-Joseph-Davis, a romantically the nations. may know their un-troying, failing which He may pro-land's steed be fast enough to
tect those humbled and submissively overhaul!" righteousness.
faithful in the day of visitation— for, "Hitler is coming."
1
*
so long as Duce co-ordinates
minada expament, of thistom, who fist eat upon the traele of that dis-- covery, and we can still trust Mr. Wells to convince us that the won- ders of his invention night, just
(And though such words referred (These are the words that are
to Il Duce's Abyssinian campaign, addressed to you today.)
Hitler is the Instrument of God! And this message is designed to a prelude to the Great event both The Chaldean is the ancient pat-give timely forewarning that the East and West, yet the Fuhrer's conceivably, happen one day. (Some They were stirred by the Teutonic forecast is irrevocably de-hand, is the power behind the twain, of them, indeed, have actually hap- tern. Spirit of Providence to execute van creed, geance against inhabitants ignoring (Lest we forget the tip for the with Teuton claims, otherwise his pened pretty much as he foresaw His extended patience when exhort-Armaments Race submitted on the ruling power may be rudely shaken them at the beginning of the cen- ed to forsake their unclean, vain eve of this momentous event)
and the German-Nazi alone prevail, tury), The effect of, the discovery and selfish habits which were evil "From thunderings, rumbling for it has been affirmed that "Ger- upon Joseph Davis was to send him in the sight of the Lord, and so warning murmurs, in near and dis- many is ready for the moment, but in search of these new and more England scents impen-seeks Lelaxation for the time "") powerful minds that were, beginning provoked Him by their indifference tant parts, and hardness of heart
ding doom and hastens to forstall, And I claim these statements, to come into the world, and his re- The Fuhrer's hand shall not be though unmindful of Fate's law: though they be strangely set, are searches led him, on the penultimate stayed! Those who oppose him For greedy conquests must be re-sufficiently intelligible to appreciate Page, to the realisation that both shall not prevail. Such words compensed upon such conqueror's their meaning portent, which is himself and his wife were among shall be remembered when the Al-head, when a Righteous God for equivalent to the Bible saying: "He the earlier attempts to regenerate mighty has accomplished. His pur-ever rules the Universe and observes who hath an ear let him hear” humanity, and that their infant son still higher Thus shall the unexpected prove was likely to be pose against peoples unmindful of the nations works
which is often sexponent of the God and who even affirm that He "No nation stands immane today, the exception to the rule so
the “ape that has made does not exist.
but, take heed, the Teuton, like the accomplished in this manner by to: succes It Is, with assurance, forecasted, ancient Chaldean, is the chosen Heaven's Huling Power to humble this mess, with our machinery. It who is very pleasant know that the that Imperial England and her con- chiefest instrument of an afflicting the pride of boastful
eting richness of Mt. Wells's imagination wort of powers together with Com-Rod that descends without mercy ignores their Creator's “
knows no wasting. munist Russia, in the midst of their land with cruel and fearsome blows. hand,
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