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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 618,

TAGORE,

HIS INUENCE ON ASIATIC

NATIONS.

BY DRAS INGR)

Denn Loge, who is by now quite as WITH | famous as a publicist as he is as a divine, is the author of the following thoughtful article on the notel Iadian poet. Rabin- dranath Tagore, who visited Hongkong That year-

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THE WAR OF RETRIBUTION:

ins have found

And now, he thinks, our sins

out. Europe's wealth is bursting into smoke, and her humanity is shatter- You ed into bits on her battlefelds." ask in amazement' what she has done to deserve this? The answer is that the West has been systematically petrifying her moral nature in order to iny a solid foundation for her gigantic abstractions of efficiency. The war of nations is a war of retribution...Europe must know in her own person the terrible as test the Nation. The West of the thing

Disillu stands face to face with our creation, to which she had offered her soul." sionment and repentance will conte, and then Asin will thank God that she was

While the nations of Europe were tear- ing each other to pieces in the Great War.male to wait in silence through the night of despair, holding fast through all to her the Tndian poet and prophet Rabin trust in God and the truth of the human dranath Tagore was lecturing in Japan soul. and America on "Nationalism," and expounding his philosophy of history. Tagore is unquestionably one of the greatest men of our time; as a poet and "thinker his positing is unique: and he has never delivered his soul with more fore passion than in these lectures..

Our prophet zpes to Japan, and finds its people preparing to pass its children through the Bre to the same Moloch. He them that true modernism is warns freedom of mind, not slavery of taste, Modernis

is not in the dress the Euro peans, or in the hideous structures where their children are interned when they take their lessons, or in the suture houses with, fiat straight wall-surfaces.

Tagore here shows himself a proud and with paralled lines of window

To the Americans he says that beauty and her twin-brother truth require leisure and self-control for their growth. But the greed of gain has no limit to its rapacious-

fervid patriot, who is wounded in his

they are aged, certainly not in most sensitive feelings by what he calls the their ladies bonnets, carrying on them Alas! when insulta of Europeans to Asiaties. The soul loads of incongruities,

has been humiliated Tagore was in London, he looked like a of India, he says, by the English occupation. At the same benignant mystic, with his head in the time he must not be classed with the sedieloids: but the chief was taking notes, and tious plutters who are giving war Govern faith: he's printed them! ment toc mach trouble. He knows that India could not stand along, and that our withdrawal would leave the country prey not only to civil war, but to suit other, Western conqueror. He also likes and admires the English character. Iness. Its one object is to produce, and consume. It has pity neither for beauti- have a great love and respect for the nature nor for beautiful human beings. British race.

I know that these people is ruthlessly ready to crush beauty and love justice and freedom and hate life out of them, moulding them into They are clear in their minds, frank in their aners, true in their friendship: in their behaviour they are honest and re- Hiable."

money. It is trampling into distortion the humanity upon which it stands. Man is deriding his buman sentiments be cause they said in the way of his ma chines..

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THE WOLF PACK.

AN EASTERN PROPHET, We may therefore consider this Asiatic

The glowing eloquence of the great pro- philosophy of history without any animus against the writer. His thoughts are phet carries one way. But Tagore is tional pride and outraged patriotism owe those of an Eastern prophet surveying the partially Westernised after all. His na and the evil of Western civilization. not a little to the European invader. We good Tagore is not a Christian: but his at have noerished India on the literature tiitude reminds us that there was a time of revolt till our light chains begin to gait when Christianity was an Asiatic creed those who have never known freedom. it was the time of the original Gospel. We have not interfered either with the Again and again he seems to be norecast system or with the spiritual idealism Christian than the Christians.

of India-the two things which he says Men and nations" may choose a course contain the real history of the country. (but the nations. at least, have not much If the Indians care so little about poli- choice!) which for a time is successful, tical institutions that they allow a few bat which ends in a death-trap. History thousand white men to govern 50 millions bus provided several instances, and we of their own race, have we robbed thein may trace the same law in the animal of much after all, as the price of secure world. The steep has the Just word peace. law and order, and sanitation? If against the wolf. Predatory animals and they want nutionbood--the accursed thing races of men are at inst destroyed because in Tagore's philosophy-they can have if Still, there is a terrible truth in his in- The nation is an inhuman they are a nuisance, and is nobody's

dictment interest to save them from their enemies, machine, and we are in its grip. We look a higher ideal, whether it The sheep on the other hand, though they wistfully at

themselves, are useful and Wis protect indispensable; they pay their way and comes to us from the. Gallenn lake or something more. The sheep-races of Asia, from the banks of the Ganges. But our environment has turned as Europeans into in the

same way, may outlive all their wolf packs surrounded by other packs as they have a survival-value ferve as ourselves. Who shall deliver oppressors; This is not quite Tagore's argument; appeals to the eternal laws of right and is from the body of this death? justies; but I think be has science on his side.

cannot

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Europe has had acute national rivalries, but no race problems like India. The fact that races ethnologically different are in close contact is the great problem of India. India has tried to solve it by the social regulation of differences on the one band, and by the spiritual recognition of unity on the ether. She has made grave blunders by setting up the boundary walls too rigidly between races: she has crip- pled the minds and narrowed the life of whole classes in trying to fit them into her social forins. But behind all this she has fostered a lofty spiritual idealism which sets at nought all human distine tions. The history of India has been only superficials a history of the rise and fall of kingdoms; the real history has been that of social life and of spiritual ideals.

ATROCIOUS

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We believe that the atrocious letters of these moneylenders account for your lapse," said Col. C. W. Carr-Calthrop, presiding magistrale, at Ealing Police Court, when Frederick Alfred Winfeld (35,) of Auckland-road East, Southsea, an accountant, was bound over for em bezzling £7 108. received on behalf of his former employers, a West Ealing firm of house furnishers.

Mr. W. Firth delending, said Win- field served in the Army from Aug. 5th. 1014, unit the end of the war and was rationed in dispatches. In 1992 he got into difficulties and borrowed £15 from a money-leading firm, and although he had since repaid nearly £40 he still owed over £9. "They know this man's posi tion," said Mr. Firth. "and it is sheer blackmail."

ORGANIZED SELF-INTEREST. Upon this congeries of races which has never been a nation descended a real nation, organised through and through for self-defence, conquest, and exploita tion. This was for Ludia very different conquest from the inroads of other Asia tica, with their elephants and kettlegrams, mosques, palaces, and tombs. This was the invasion of a scientific machine, driven sum under a bill of sale.

A woman, who asked Mr. Wadly, at Tower Bridge Court for advier, said she negotiated a loan Tor E30 from a money- tender and received £26. She had re- paid £19, and, having fallen into arrears, the moneylender now claimed £21, and bad put a mar in possession for that

by the law of its being, to increase its Mr. Waddy-All you can do is to power and wealth with an impersonal pay the money. I hope you'll learn wi ruthlessness, a dehumanised efficiency-dom in future and keep out of the hands "We bud to deal this time not with king of sharks.

not with husan races, hut with a Nation

we who are no nation ourselves."

The Nation, Tagere says, is the organis ed self-interest of a whole people where it is least, human and least spiritual" Our only intimate experience with the Nution is with the British Nation, and there are reasons, to believe that it is one of the best. Bat, he adds, "we have felt its grip at the root of our life, and for the sake of humanity we must stand up and give warning to all that this nation- alism is a cruel epidemic of evil that is sweeping over the hunud world of the Vanity."

age, and eating into its moral It is like"an bydraulic press, whose pressure is impersonal and on that account completely effective.

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A startling revolution was to be seen in the machines exhibited by the British Tabulating Machine Company, Limited, at the recent Business Efficiency Exhibi- tion held at the Central Hall, Westrains ter, London.

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This Company had on view one of their latest types of machine, namely, the Printing and Listing Tabulator. is a very wonderful machine for dealing with facts which are represented by holes punched in cards. The maschine" will convert the holes back into legible So he charges us with choking and figures at a rate of 150 cards per minute. stifling the mental and moral life of India. This means that with Five-Counter although he admits that the spirit of the Machine--such se was exhibited-actually English people loves liberty: We must 750 items are being added per minute. acknowledge this paradox, thut while the In addition, the machine will print the spirit of the West marches under the ban tabulated results either on a roll of pa ner of freedom, the Nation of the West per or on such forms as may be desired. Another very important feature of this forges its iron chains of organization,, which are the most relentless and un machine is that it actually appears to breakable that have ever been manufac. have the sense of discriminating between tured in the whole history of man." This the Group or Job Nos,, etc.., arranged is an Indian view of the British Raj, on the card, and will automatically stop which we picture to ourselves as foolishly when it has dealt with the cards punched It will then print Jux and lenient, a weak and easy-guing for one desiguation. Kovernment resting on the acquiescence the result and automatically start da

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