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VAUXHALL engines gër 20% more power out of every drop of petrol used. That is why recent R.A.C.official trials over 1000 miles of public roads, produced there extraordinary results :~~

25 h.p. 14 h.p. 10 h.p.

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72.48 m.p.g. 30.31 m.p.g. 43.4 m.p.g.

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of Commons the other day, "to pre- trophe,as he wat hed in Paris the dict in the present world."And who opening stages of the French Re- should know better than he? -

volution. The certain coming of a When the Armistice was signed, Revolution in Franco had been Mr. Lloyd George at Guildhall clearly foretold by Lord Chester- spoke of "this solemn moment of field 20 years before its outbreak. triumph.. this great hour which So, and for as long a time, the rings in a new era and which is go- downfall of the Tsarist regime had ing to lift up humanity to a higher been confidently predicted if it level of existence for all ages of should become deeply involved in a the future." That was how he and disastrous war. Yet in both cases others felt and what he and others revolution might have been long hoped would be.

postponed and possibly averted if But vain is the augur's voice, France and Russia had had more That glowing prophecy is but "a resolute Kings had had bolder handful of grey ashes to-day. One Ministers.

is sometimes tempted to believe that Cicero was right when he said, in his treatise on Divination, “L reckon the best prophet and the best guesser to be much the same.” MANKIND'S UNCERTAIN WAYS

Disraeli ance observed--that “of all forms of error prophecy is the most gratuitous." But that did not kept him from prophesying when the mood was on. Two-years before the Austro-Prussian War of 1866

he said that "Prussia was a coun- try without bottom and could not

BY J. B. FIRTH

Burke acquired the reputation of being "the prince of political pro- phets" on the strength of his pes- simistic forecasts of the Tror and "the long war" which he felt sure must follow.

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Qu'on tro que boucher old French, reads: "An E near Italy who dearly. It is sa ples are in will find him. butcher.”

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land's great “more than 30 did not indicat point.

Dr. Inge, 10 "the very smal tain makes it shall cease to Powers of the then writing view, it only le years of greatne pse of Dr. Ing errors as that! in 1843 was bol himself into 19

potent in the Ne the arch-enemy. dom, and his course, the adm the world.

"Where is En xious enquirer.

maintain a war for six weeks."

Prophets who speak with the studied ambiguity of an oracle do not deserve the name. Yet if they If the story of Pitt's prophecy trospective ske do not leave themselves a loop-hole when news came of Mack's sur- progress.” He e of escape they are almost sure to be render at Ulm and Napoleon's a population of confounded by events.. It is an march on Vienna be authentic, the ugly dilemma. If a prophet bases prediction deserves a leading place his prediction on the enlightened of honour, “All is lost," exclaimed common sense of his fellows they some one at the table. “You are mis- are sure to let him down, for some- taken," said Pitt. "There is yet hope times the herd rushes violently if I can succeed in stirring up a down steep places: if he goes on national war in Europe-a war

"Make yourse the Carlylean principle that man- which ought to begin in Spain.” kind are "mostly fools" they are This does not look to me quite like Lamartine. "She sure to surprise him by extraordin- a genuine inprovisation at a shat- ed like another ary manifestations of good sense, tering moment. Yet only a states- continues to wo and disinterestedness.

man could make it.

and to undergo Many were prescient enough to clusively comme predict the American war of Indehold. Tyre and pendence, knowing the stock from age; at a later: which so many of the colonists had ence, Genoa and sprung and the fretful impatience Netherlands. All of all Government control in their been rapidly ecl blood, and realising the extreme un like meteors. Th wisdom of imposing taxes across was grander, bed the wastes of the Atlantic. Once the more extensiv French menace to New England's course is not dif vast hinter land had been removed is the same." by British help the Colonists were. Apparently L almost certain to assert their in- land in a sort of dependence and they did.

paying retribut "As yet we only crawl along the Predictions based on reflection misdeeds and to outer shell of our country. The in- are alone valuable: the rest are only cantile a policy.

Car terior excels the part we inhabit in fit, as Bacon said, for winter, talk had gone

France ha soil, in climate, in everything, The by the fireside. To the latter cate- and proudest empire in Europe is but gory belong the "Centuries" restored Gibralt a bauble compared to what America of Nostradamus, the 16th Goebbels and Si will be, must be, in the course of century "Old Moore.". Yet compose similar two centuries, perhaps of one." he foretold Napoleon in most un-

16TH CENTURY OLD MOORE canny fashion. That was the utterance of a true Un Empereur

The future, in fact, is unpredict- able. Nevertheless, the future is oc- casionally predicted. But "it needs. heaven-sent moments for this skill," and the wisest prophets-I speak; of course, only of the profane project their vision into the dis tant rather than the immediate fu- ture.

One of the best historical pro- phecies I know was Gouverneur Morris's prediction, in 1801, of the coming development of the United States:

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