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THEOSOPHY.

KARMA: NATURE'S LAW OF JUSTICE.

LECTURE AT HONGKONG LODGE,

At last Wednesday's public meeting of the Hongkong Lodge of the Theosophiest Society, no address was delivered on "Karina Nature's Law of Justice, el which the following is a brief outline:

Passing through life we set up a wain causes that must somewhere, at some time.

me, work out into certain definite re sults. For we must not overlook the fact, that it is a law of nature that to force can be lost, that no particle of energy ywhere in the universe ena be put forth anyw without a natural result following Every thought and act is a disturbance in some degree of the equilibrium of the universe. and it must and will certainly re-adjust itself. No human being can escape the consequences of his lightest thought or

VALUE OF THE CLASSICS.

MORE ALIVE THAN EVER." Mr. John Bailey lectured recently on "Some Remarks on the Classics and their Translators" before a joint meeting of the Classical and English Associations in Westminster School Hall. The Head- master of Westminster was the chairman.

Me. Bailey emphasized that it was, the first joint meeting of the two associations, and that such a meeting ought to lus stress on the fact that classical teaching was for English boys unsatisfactory and incomplete without a study of English, while English "terature gained very greatly by a knowledge of the classics. It was pedantry to assert that English poets could not be understood without the classics, but it was folly to deny that. with the assistance of the classics, they were much more quickly, and much more completely understood. A recent testator left money for scholarships in modern

slightest deed. We aust reap precisely languages, but on un account for the 拉純 We NOW. No evasion is possible.classics, which, he said were of no use

The old system

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Death does not settle the score shy move for anybody, except for clergymen and than moving to a new town will pay debts other people who lived stugannt lives. in the old one. This law which so exactly But they were told a few months ago re-establishes the equilibrium of the that the President of the United States,

who could not very well ive universe whenever it is disturbed in any degree is called karma; it is nature's life, was giving an uldress strongly ad haw of justice. In all the universe there vocating classical education, and, what was more remarkable still, Lord Finlay can be no such thing as chance To see the truth of it we need only observe the said a little while ago that, his colleague people around us. There is no such thing on the Tribunal at The Hague had shown Behind every him essays in favour of classical eduen- as luck, good or bad. particle of comfort and success or ill-tion written by three Presidents of the fortune lies the energy that we ourselves United States and have generated, perhaps unconsciously, State. perhaps in a previous lifa. at once becomes clear that misfortune can no longer be called "the visitation of Cind," and responsibility for evil deeds conveni- ently charged up to Satan. It makes man just what every manly man desires to be -a self-reliant being with neither the power nor the desire to escape reapou sibility. We are determining in this life largely what kind of treatment we shall receive in days to come, and we are also creating the causes that shall make our future lives pleasant or painful. Grasped opportunity results in increased opportu- nity, neglected opportunity is followed by loss of future opportunity.

Secretaries of laid stress ucation le on the gymnastic of the classics To-day the thing to do was to lay stress on their delight. Mr.Labouchere, the well. who founded Truth. known* Labby

said that Mr. Bohn had rendered great service by his translations of the classics, And another as they had shown what very poor stuff the so called classics were. very fatuous person of that time. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, had said that, a medern" leading article was the greatest production of the human intellect to which the anly proper answer was Matthew Arnold's contemptuous, "This is not quite se

The knowledge of the law of karmu!! gives us controlling power over circum stances. We must comprehend that all men are brothers, and what rises or lowers one rises and lowers all. We should be all mesas abanden worrying and begin the cultivation of theerfulness. It liter ally pays to be sunny. Why? Because deep down at its foundation life is really joy and whoever gives it a chance to

Herse, there were translations and translations. They could not get in a new language the threefold combination of sound, association, and meaning which made the poetry in the old language, 30 it was impossible, as Dr. Johnson said, to translate poetry. Fler bare tre étre. roilà la question would not do as a ren dering of Hamlet's To be or not to be." It sunschow missed the weight of the Ring. and

bubble up unpolluted into this gray world|lish; and added 2-8 akes:care's

is instinctively sought by humanity which quickness which was not in

is steadily groping forward in its eternal phrase. The task, then, was really in verse translations would quest for more stundast There is possible, but nothing more practisanthoph always continue to be made, and would for it deals with our ecaryday life. We contine to try to give what they could are not merely avoiding difficuties for of the original. They wanted. if they couk, to have the emotional power and future facarnations but are developing county of the original, and, as they could the qualities that will win syceess in thila

We need not wait for heaven or not have toat exactly, they wanted hell until death Both are thin reach similar power in the new languages and and we can take our chake now. These therefore the translations by great poets words indicate feient spiritual coud-even if not so accurate as those of other

ons. Jesus himself said The kingloo translators, were the best. of heaven is within you" The more un- selfish our motives are the more rapidly shat we raise, the more widely useful shall we be, the more truly successful shall we become. To be guided then, by the law of Karna, is necessary to a happy,

·REAL HARLEY STREET. "VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH."

Pupe might be unlike Homer, and Dryden night be unlike Horace, but they gave after all, the greatest quality of their originals, the quality of genius. which the ordinary translator could not The poetry which succeeded hest five.

in translation was the poetry of action- epic and dramas ed they had many more of good renderings of Homer, tomer than of any other ancient poet.

M. Bailey then spoke in detail on vari ons translations of Homer, Auschylus, Pindar, and Virgil, and ended by saying alive The very name of Harley Street cun- that the classics were now moce jures up something grim and sinister, in than ever, as was proved by the existence the popular mind. yet in reality of such bodies as the Classical Associa specialist's consulting room differs very tion and by the continual appearance of little from any other professional man's new translations, and, perhaps most strik.. study;

while the waiting room the ing of all. by the entirely new features of the performance of Greek plays. Till papers and magaziacs recieved becomes within the last 50 years no Greek" play just the verses eccy of the original language in any part of Europe dinisge of the had probably less performed in the doctor's family: Shadow of Death" yales pave since the fail of the ancient world, but called it, is after ali just ay ordinary now they had had frequent performances residential street, and the specialist of Greek plays in the original fanguage an altogether human and often singularly in Oxford, London, and elsewhere, and simple and light-hearted being.

Hidden away in a cupboak in the con. of such translations into modern langu anges of ancient plays as those done in likely as not, the Paris by Monnet Sully, and in London Buiting-room, as trembling patient would find a bag of by Miss Sybil Thorndike. A drama must golf clubs, a tennis racket or a fish indeed be alive and part of a living rod, while upstairs in the nurseries and literature if it could thrill audiences in school-rooms childres play and romp 45 English and in French 2,000 years after if there were such thing as suffering the dramatist's death. or disease in the world.

For those who know it arley Street is a very homely street, but it is also a street and this is another it that few people realise that has its own struggles and failures, says, specialist's wife in. the Daily Ne

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Six undergraduates arrested during Following the "bump" sup

In the popular mind enusultants are a "rug

all well-to-do gentlemer with solid bank per which marks the concluding eight accounts and increasing reputations. In 10, the Lent, races were fined at Cam- real truth, there are many res whose bridge, Police Court.

"The" which took the police by up in Harley Street names are written to whom the future appears altogether surprise, was said to be unusually rough. The chief constable complained to the shadowy and insecare, and whose bank

magistrates that, a gumber of his men balances exist only in their dreams were kicked and badly injured. It was Only those who day after day walk up very unfair of the undergraduates, ho and down the street realise how many of said, to assault the police in the way these shining plates appear only for they did, and he asked the Bench to stop short time, and how grim are the that surt of thing. tragedies altogether unconnected with patients that are taking place every day in that El Dorado o the young

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