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THE NEW CIVILISATION IN CHINA.
WHAT SCIENCE SHOULD ACCOMPLISH, PROF. MIDDLETON-SMITH'S ADDRESS.
(Continueil from Saturday)
Ideas from Asin. All of the greatest moral idoja concerning conduct in life have hail their origin in Asin, with thu single exception of that of the equal rights of the sexes. Thint originated in Northern Europe."› The brilliance of the gulden rula the most difficult precept in life practice, the real measure of moral stature, riz., to refuse to hate those who injure us-that golden ruin illuminated the litera ture of China and of India auð was brilliantly advocated in Pales tine, when Europe was groping in mental twilight and emerging from intellectual darkness.
In thue concluding portion of his countless generations. Working on address to the University Arts stable foundations of the most lefly Association (the earlier part of ethics, and with that unfailing which has already appeared in our national cement, they built up. columna) Professor Middleton-Smith monument, the most gigantic, the world has ever seen, a nation of 400 millions of cheerful industrious, It is a and energetic people. triumph of great thoughts and
Its simple enunciation striken eternal truths, and will always dẹ- mand the recognition of "educat-responsible chord in the heart of ed and thoughtful people,
The
A Lesson from China, - Everything that is written is the nature of a confession. years spent amongst the peoples of the Far East never fail to leave their mark upon the Englishman,
Ten years ago, my impressions produced yet one more hook for the shelves of those who are interested r. China. Since then there have been simmering in my mind these thoughts which your patience has permitted me to throw off.
Enthusiastic as we may be about our triumph over, the forces of nature, we cannot be blind to the lesson to be learnt from China. For as we study your record we r cognise that you, as a nation have won a triumph none others have achieved.
every man who is civilised; as he
faila to practice, it so does he fall from the summit of the BOW in-civilisation.
Civilisation in China. The legendary kings of China cluded not only priest philosophers, Sui Yen was the but inventors,
Wo scientists can offer no alter. native for it; we cannot question the perfection of the ideal which it places before us.
discoverer af fire, Yau Tsno, the first to build houses, and Shen
All that we can claim is that, by Nung was the first tencher of
musiular agriculture and medicine. In all the substitution of coal and oil the long dynasties the Emperor of ans steel for humau China performed the manual work energy we have yaught this ideal of ploughing the land, so that his directly before milsions who other subjects might see that the Son wise would never have known of of Heaven realised the dignity of it. And that, in lifting mankind labour. It was a ritual to remind up froin the primeval struggle for us that all civilisations, past and
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your
moral nature,
The civilisation of a people is simply the result of adjustment to environment. Your people, through forty centuries of authentic history, present, matter what their food and shelter, we have given him has accomplished that achievement. values, have been dependent on opportunities to cultivate not only You started in the struggle for work. The old civilisation of an his body, but "his intellectual and national existence with the oldest cient China was built up en man- of the old Egyptians, long before power. The civilisation of the
With the spread of publicity and the Pyramida were piled up. Your world to-day has been made built nation has outlived that early up by the use of power supplied by the rapid transportation of men, civilisation, just as you have out-steel and coal and oil.
goods and ideals, barriers arc lived that of the Persians who de- The only blemishes of
In the place of veloped the ideas of the early national life were the neglect of breaking down. Egyptians. You have outlived the science, and the inequality of the the old isolated life of an agricn!
Those blemishes are dis- Greeks who conquered Egypt and sexes Inid the foundations of science in appearing, and your new outlook is tural or pastoral community, the Alexandria. You have outlived the now worldwide instead of merely average inhabitant of this planet Romans who followed the Greeke; national. You, too, are working for is being drawn into the vertex of and the conquering Arabs whose the new age and the new order of international thought. Dare wo to descendants in Egypt are now more mankind.
visualise the coming times? back-sheesh hunters. You develop.
Can we venture to suggest that, static a noble literature centuries betion should be defined not only as
chemicals, the name and the substitution by man of efficient like wo fore England was HOTEL
while ancient Britons were paint intellectual for physical agencies in philosophy of the East will alloy ing their bodies and sacrificing his struggle with inanimate nature; with the dynamic purposes of the to pagan god but also as the substitution of moral West and out of this vast experi captive humans And while all these changes were for intellectual and for physical ment there will emerge a passing on the flickering aereen at agencies in his dealings with ani- civilisation that will be strong chough to bring peace, culture and time, yours was the one and only mate nature.
contentment to all mankind. people that remained civilised and Funchanged.
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It received the goose.
It seems to me that the scientific triumphs of the nineteenth century
Carry the Touch. Like the Great Pyramid in the enabled us to substitute, brain-
power for muscular energy in our We have been told that the mind- Libyan desert your nation has en- dured the ravages of time. Both struggle with animato nature. It teenth century received, for trans stand erect and proud in the posis for your young people, of this port, the horse; it passed on to us session of a history unique and re twentieth century, heirs of all the the bicycle, the locomotive and the
like it markable;
the ages and of all knowledge, not only Fyramids, your people has seemed to take full advantage of those re- through the ages immovable and cent, triumphs, but also to work for impassive, it was because your, un-the substitution of moral for other shakeable social system was built agencies in any conflict of will between man and man or nation upon deep and solid foundations.
Your leaders fixed their minds and nation. In doing so you will an great and eternal truths. They be true to the teachings of your Have you the remarkable literature own grent snges, and to the true which has acted as a rement, blind-definition of the new civilisation. ing the nation together through It meant reading hundreds of
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In that single century the hand kom gave place to the factory, the tailos dip to electric light; fint, steel and tinder were replaced by matches, the singal beacon by the books on China, many yeare of telephone and wireless, the wooden thought about your triumphs, be- sailing vessel by the steamship fore it occurred to me that there made of steel. That sama century gave to us the dynamo and X-rays, are three great doctrines of Gov- ernment, which have existed for the camera machine mado ice and many generations and still service, lithography, anaesthetics and the in theory in your country to this genny press. day. They are:-
-That the nation must be
The process did not censo with the nineteenth century; already in the first quarter of this twentieth moral agency rather than by century we have been given the physical force,
cinema, broad-casting television and the aeroplane.
2. That the service of the wisest and ablest men in the nation are indispensable to good government.
3.-Thnt the people not only have
A
rule. These dostrinca are laid down in the volumes of your Sacred Books, and there is evidence that they have been taught in China, for 4,000 years.
Never Look Back..
It is impossible for scientists to
a right but a duty to deposenderstand the type of mind that Bdvocates (as Chesterton, Gandhi, ruler who from active wickedness or vicious indol- and others da) the impossible task ence gives cause to oppressive of reversing a world process, and returning to a dead past, rather than taking up the great enterprise of hending energy and talents to the creation of a more magnificent future out of recently acquired knowledge. We cannot go back,
For the first time in human his- It is exeuseable to remind you tory, there is a civilisation, found- that the evolution of thought ined on engines and electric power, Europe has finally attained to the which includes a real and a pra heigate renched by those Chinesetical recognition of the brother- writers of many centures ago.
hood of man.
The League of Nations is simply We cannot live by bread alone, an effort to substitute a moral | but first things must come first. As agency for physical force.
From the second of the doctrines power liberates humanity more and the system of Public Service Ex-are from doing the slow and time- consuning things: that are connect. aminations naturally evolved. The ed only with mere living, there wil stimulas, in the shape of wealth and come a fuller and a more satifying official rank, produced the practical
life.
result in Chica that the people had Out of mass production ther the great ambition to educate must come more goods, more themselves. May that always con- luisure, more education.
'tinue.
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Unless the trond of human evolu- The Public Service Examination were the cause of the continued tion suddenly alters these gifts of deration of the nation. They spur the machine age will produce heal- red parents, at any sacrifico, to their and better men and women.
The new leisure, will mean the
Under the new civilisation the feet uppp..sold earthi tó left up make their sons have an intimate acquisition of yet more knowledge
your eyes toothe heights that in- knowledge of the literature eputain of the world in which we live and love of beauty, the sense of mystery spired your ancient ages to enun.. ing these doctrines and many others. conducive to high mental cultive of the real needs of human nature, and the instinct of compassion procinte their magnifierot canons of
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The most educated men riled the system of goods so that there will not detroyed. They are always conduct, the reatest of which is part of our human nature. They the practice of charity to all mat country and, in the average, tlie be no unnatural slowing up of pro Heen, Nang the wise and able- duction. It will lead to greater can only be expressed when the in deeds and also in thougate have not only sound judgment, but scientific triumphs, new accomplish. more primitive instincts of hunger,Thus will you prove yourselves ments in letters and in art. It will warinth, and the personat security worthy citizens of the new world righteousness and benevolence. The British. Government of about increase this new and splendid of ourselves and our dependenta are civilisation which you will help to seventy years ago was induced to desiree significant of recent antished. The new civilization by evolve, not for the benefit only of copy this system of competitive years the desire to practico great asuring us of these things, enables yourselves, not for the benefit, only examinations from China by repre- charity and to realise our ob us to develop our poblor natures your nation, but for the benefit sentations made by remarkable ligations to those less fortunato It is for you, who have all of the of all humanity of those who live splendid advantages of a Western now in every part of the world English Consul in China named than ourselves.
That is why we are anthusiastic education and the heritage of a land of those who will belong to the Meadows The result has been the very high standard of condoot of in our endeavours to introduce alea great literature to develop the wastenerations that will follow: after thebric power and machinery into the natural resources-of-your-own you That la your duty. That is oficials sinco ··recruited, la
country and while keeping your your plendid opportunity. Drush Civil Service.
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