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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 29th, 1928.

THE WORLD OF TO-MORROW.

CIVILISATION AT WORK AND PLAY

ECONOMIC MAN AS SUPPLANTER OF THE WARRIOR AND THE MONK.

A PSYCHOLOGICAL SUBSTITUTE FOR WAR.

[BY THE VERY Ray, W. R. INGE, D.D., Day of St. Paul's]

Cuticura Loveliness Beauty of MotherTM

As members of the human race, has supplanted the monk and the Bestowed On Daughter

we seldom remember, or, rather, we knight. Even ware are, now, in have not yet learnt, either how old | the opinion of many, attempts to we are or how young we are. If seize marketa and raw materials; our astronomers are right, we are though in reality they are a revolt only beginning to toddle. There is of the natural man against a life no reason why mankind should not so unlike what he has been used to be in: existence fifty million years for thousands of years. hence, though, as all our coal and oil will have come to an end long || Philippe came to a sudden end in before that time, it may be rather chiliy in winter, By far the greater part of our life lies ahead. | years, na Julius Caesar testifies, the

But what lies behind is half

|

The bourgeois monarchy of Louis

1848 simply because “France was bored For nearly two thousand

For more than two generatieba mothers everywhere have been using Cuticura Preparations and have been teaching their daughters that dally use of them produces clear skin and healthy hair. They and the Soap pars and cleansing, the Ointment soothing and healing and the Talmun an ideal tollet powder. Sana, Oltmont, Taloum sold throughout

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Gaul has cared chiefly for two POLICE CHIEF IN PRISON. things-fighting and witty talk.

la spite of all temptations. to bo content with middle-class comfort, he kicked against the pricks, and voted away his liberties, by an over- whelming majority, to a pinchbeck Napoleon

million years at least, a long enough time to form very inveterato habits. When we see honto sapiens belying his self-chosen maine more egregiously than usual he is gen- erally obeying the prompting of some instinct which may have been useful to him in the five hundred thousand years before civilisation of tame animals would equally Fabian So jalism-that farmyard was thought of. It may be useful suffer shipwreck on the instincts of to him again some day, for civilisa-human nature. Man is not a wolf, tion is a disease from which nations but still less is he a sheep. He is seldom recover, and the barbarians combative, and likes the excitement

have the last word.

of a rough game. We see with sur- Meanwhile we are encumbered prise I am watching it in one of with a variety of stavistic tastesny own children-how a boy who which can find no outlet in our rehas had all the easy comforts of a gular work. We are partially public school and aniversity will domesticated animals, with instineta eagerly throw himself into rough which belong to the wild state. and hard work in a distant colony, Even dogs, who have adapted where he can live, as he says, themselves to civilised life better man's life." Even the war, with than we have, and are morally all its borrors, was a kind of libera superior to the average man, are tion for many who took part in it. sometimes betrayed by instinet. They will gorge themselves with meat, if they get the chance, like wolves, forgetting that they have their regular meals.

Industrial Age.

The economic man was always a fiction of the economists, if they supposed that he ever existed as à pure type. But the industrial age Fun Of Competition.

úns given a character to the wen But we have devised a cunning of our time. The most representa plan for letting off steam—we call tive members of our society have it play. Our games are mock-fight been strenuous, acquisitive, and in- ing, our sports are mock-hunting dividualistic in a way in which And what are our concerts and their ancestors were not. Is this oratorior but playing at what was type, which has not had time to once a very serious business-the strike a deep root, kikely to be per- placating of evil spirits by noisy manent? I think not. The economic incantations The play must recall man, when he has achieved his am the real business of savage life, orbition, tends to die out, because we do not care for it. Shooting a target instead of at birds would be counted dull, and it is 'the' sham fight which gives zest to

team-play.

HOW IMRE NADOSY SERVED

HIS SENTENCE

BUDAPEST.

Imre Nadosy, the former chief of

with the frane forgeries, returned police, who was sentenced to Your years' imprisonment in connection to his home on Good Friday, having received exemption from serving the four and a half months still to run before the expiration of the

term.

It is seldom that chiefs of police are obliged to, gain experience of whole of his term of imprisonment their own prisons. During the Nádasy refused to avail himsel! of any concession, wearing prison dress and eating the standard food. His exemplary conduct deeply impress ed the other convicts in the prison.. Having recently been put to work Among the convicts engaged in agricultural labour, Nádosy earned four Aller a day; on his discharge

he received the sum of fourteen. Pengo, the amount of his earnings.

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DOG-RACING SHARE CAPITAL.

At a meeting of the shareholders of Associated Greyhound Race courses, Ltd., at Winchester House, Old Broad-street, E.C, the chair- His instinct is to appropriate ratherman, Admiral Sir Sydney Fre- than to produce, and because he comes into sharp conflict with rivals of his own sort.

Perhaps we may see in the present Even business. firms could often predominance of the banker ad make more money by ceasing to speculator over the merchant a sign compete, but without the rivalry of the incipient decline of the in- where would be the fun! It does dustrial state. The masses, who not matter a pin whether the bosses now posscas political power, seem who govern America call themselves to have made up their minds no Republicans or Democrats, but the longer to give the money-spinner Americans must have their sham a free hand to accumulate. It is fight, and like the crowd at felt that the new wealth has been Ephesus, they will shout for two really created by the new machines; hours (or longer) that Diana, or that it belongs to nobody; and that Smith, or Thompson is "great" it may rightly be used to raise the Unfortunately, the instinet of standard of civilisation in the pugnacity is so strong that it caz nation as a whole. Rightly or not all be carried off by games and wrongly, the democratic countries politics. After a generation or will act on this principle, and the two of orderly and rational be-acquisitive type of man, the human haviour yahoomanity says.!! Ouf!" | squirrel or magple, will lose his and demands the real thing, hot prestige and his advantages. and strong. So we hare the most The future may be with those ruinous of all survivals—war. nations who can produce a still

War is not primitive. The so-newer type-the man who is adapted called lower animals never make to social service. This word is war; the only exceptions are those already a rather wearisome parrot- over-civilised creatures, the boos phrase but it may indicate a type and ants, which, like ourselves, own which will have a greater survival wealth and suffer from over-value in the future than either the ___ | knights and marks of the Middle population

Man seems to have been peaceful Ages or the acquisitive "successful until the discovery of metals, three maxi of the nineteenth century.

or four thousand years ago. - White Some already speak of this last

we were nomad-hunters we killed | type se an inconvenient survival.. the wild beats, saldom each other" Is i

Heroism In Peacej: -

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But we must not belittle the

it possible that war is a passing phase, belonging not to the infancy achievements of robust individual- but to the childhood of humanity? Recent paychologists have said that. To this type belong all the the combative age in children is bepioneers, in the things of the mind tween the ages of mine and twelve, and the production of wealth. A ́and spirit no less than in invention which would roughly correspond to social system which leaves no scope the beginnings of civilisation," as our descendants will call the doomed to stagnation and petrifab for self-assertive individuality is period in which we are living.. tion. It is precisely because The Money-Haking -Man-.- humanity has possessed a unique Types of civilisation flourish | power of throwing off freaks, rebels, because for a time they have a and original characters who refuse survival value. The Roman Em- to keep step, that it has advanced pire was made necessary by the beyond the brute and the savage, barbarians, the Catholic Church by and has hitherto escaped the pagana and heretics. But when the mechanical tyranny of the beehive conditions change survivals become and anthill inconvenient. For instance, Spain The worst of all survivals, as we' was the loading nation in Europe have said, is war, and there is no when there was a demand for the reason why a paychological sub two types in which she specialised-stitute should not be found for it. fighting men and priests. But since Man is above all an artist," says the decay of feudalism's new type Elie Faure. He only rejects throse. the' economic man-has come to the forms of art that are exhausted. front, and in Spain there was no The desire of perpetual peace will room for him.

not kill this form of art unless the In some ways the fighting man conditions of peace involve a new and the praying than are much method of warfare, with the she nearer to ancestral human nature sudden and collective intoxication, than the money-making man; but the same shining responsibilities, the time for these specialised types the same creativo risks, the same was over. Both the warrior and the atmosphere of voluntarily accepted priestespecially the latter became tragedy. The service of man may obstacles to progress and a burden surely offer these chances of heroism which the nation had to support. from time to time; and for the rest, The competitive, economic man, re-let us not forget the purgativa valus Sieving his primitive instincts by of competitive games. It is not for the games, sports and political nothing that these flourish most in aham fights which we have described, the least, militaristic nations

antio referred to a pending legal action in which the company are endeavouring to recover £125,000 of capital. A considerable proportion of the share issue, bo said, was left to be taken up by the underwriters as the result of a speech in which the Home Secretary [Sir Williama Joynsan-Hicks) advised the public to be chary of investing money in ventures connected with greyhound racing.

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