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LIVERPOOL DIOCESAN JUBILEE.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, AUGUST 23rd, 1930.

A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE.

Synthetic Humans May

be Produced!

In a thousand years "from now man, born of woman, may be doing all the thinking, planning, writing and mental work of the world, while man born of test tubes in! blo-chemical laboratories does the rough physical labour.

This startling theory is advanc- ed by H. T. F. Rhodes, the distin- guished young scientist who is general secretary of the British Association of Chemists.

"We are just on the threshold of the discoveries chemists are making," said he. "We have al- most finished with analysis. We are passing on to synthesis-the| building up and the making of new and valuable 'products out of the meaner ones. The speculation is, therefore, almost forced upon us that in time we will be able to create living material.

A Step Forward.

"Professor. Loeb years ago in an American university announced that he had succeeded artificially in fertilizing the eggs of the sen urchin. That was an enormous step forward. And now we know

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The Archbishop of York (centre) welcoming the visiting Archbishops and Bishops at the great service held in Liverpool Cathedral to commemorate the jubilee of the formation of the Diocese of Liverpool. There were present about 200 Archbishops and Bishops who are attending the fam- beth Conference from all parts of the world. Grouped round Dr Temple are the Bishop of Liver-

pool and his Diocesan clergy. (Times_copyright,}

FOURTEENTH

H. T. F. Rhodes, general secretary

have created protoplasin, thus causing life to manifest itself. Perhaps it will not end there:] Having produced protoplasm in a chemical laboratory, perhaps man will discover some process, now unknown to us, by which we can incubate and nurse, as it were, this substance so as to produce even more complicated forms of life. Finally we may produce a living, moving being something like ourselves.

Would be Labourers.. "Suppose then it were possible in a thousand years from now for a chemist to produce synthetic living things? They could be set to do the workaday labour of the

of the British Association of world, thus setting free those!

Chemists.

human beings naturally begotten | to undertake further conquests of

that man, the most highly com- knowledge. plicated of all living things, is "Would the laboratory created after all only a collection of cells. beings be men like us? Who "We know that protoplasm, knows? Probably not. But they that wonderful substance which would be something approaching is the very basis of what we call is in structure. Whether they living things, is made up of car- would think like us also is a mat- bon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitro-ter of speculation. When you talk gen. We know the way the atoms about thinking you get into the were arranged. Some day in a metaphysical. The metaphysi- laboratory some chemist may ac-cians differ among themselves as complish the union of these atoms to what thinking is and whether in the same way. He will then we really think at all."

OF JULY CELEBRATIONS IN PARIS.

President Doumorgue took the saluto at the customary 14th of July review of troops in Paris. Our picture shows troops dressed in the uniforms of. 1830 marching past the Grand Palais. The Bay of Tunis, Prince Takamatsu of Japan and other prominent people attended the ceremony. The centenary of the conquest of Algeria was also commemorated with this year's 14th of July Fetes. (Timee copyright.)

THE ORDER OF MERIT. Public Puzzled by Omissions.

Here are two of the men on whom the Order of Merit has been conferred. Dr. Montague R. James, right, is Pro-. vost of Eton College and a famous Bibical authority. Pro fessor G. M. Trevelyan, left, is professor of modern history at Cambridge University.

of the

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Is there a boycott on the greatest physics in 1906 and one living British authors and artists 7 authorities on radium, electricity And if so, why? These are two and magnetism; Sir. C. S. Sher- questions Britons have been rington, one of the most noted quietly asking themselves ever British authorities on physiology since honours, conferted every and particularly the nervous sys- year on the King's birthday, were tem; Sir J. G. Frazer, probably recently announced. The dis- the greatest living authority on cussion has especially come up folk lore; Sir E. Rutherford, who because the Order of Merit was won the Nobel prize for chemistry, conferred upon three

world's leading men- and one of the Samuel Alexander, Montague physicists, especially as to radio- Rhodes James and George activity; Sir C. A. Parsons, head Macauley Trevelyan, only the lat- of a great machine works and in- ter of whom can be said to be ventor of the steam turbine; Sir known to the mass of the people. G. A. Gricson, who knows more about the hundreds of languages Sovereign Grants Honours. The Order was founded June and dialects in India than any man 26, 1902, by the late King Edward who ever lived.. VII. He desired to have something Besides these, there is that would be very exclusive and statesman-politican-David Lloyd unique and that could be confer- George. Others of the same ilk, red for distinguished services in who once held, the honour and have all callings. It would include both; since died, were Lords Morley, military men and civilians. It Byrce, Haldane and Balfour. would be limited to a total of 24 Literature is represented by and so would be more conveted and two men, Sir J. M. Barrie, noted more rare than knighthoods, bar for his. plays and novels, and John onetcies and peerages.

Galsworthy, the novelist. At present, two men represent

Shaw is. Ignored. the armed forces of the nation, But the omissions from the list, Lords Jellicoe and Beatty, both of especially as regards the arts and whom were fighting Admirals dur- literature, аге most striking. ing the World War. Three other They include George Bernard Shaw. men, who were named, have since George Moore, Rudyard Kipling, died-Admiral Seymour, and Earl W. B. Yents, Gilbert Murray, Haig and Viscount French who led George Saintsbury, Augustus John the British armies in France and and Jacob Epstein. Flanders. There is much quiet Admittedly to-day Shaw is the comment that men who led sol-world's most famous dramatist. diers and sailors to battle, wounds He is one of the immortals. His and death have.thus had honours!

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heaped upon them, whereas one of plays are produced in almost every the greatest soldiers of peace the civilized country. George Moore world has ever known has been is another literary man who had fobbed off with a knighthood and taken his place in the pantheon before his demise. His novels are is to-day poor and ailing-Sir Bon- ald. Roes. It was Ross who dis to-day granted the very first rank. covered that mosquitoes carry the Rudyard Kipling is a man who, by

his novels, short stories. malaria germ to man. His dis-poems, is a household name wher covery led to the further discovery ever people read English. W. B, that the mosquito is also the car Yeats, a Senator in the Irish Free rier of the yellow fever germ to State Dail, is conceded to be the man. This knowledge has enabled greatest poet in English now the medical authorities to make living: Murray has won laurels for tropical regions safe for mankind his marvellous translations of the and has undoubtedly saved mil- Greek drama, and Saintebury is lions of persons from disease and acknowledged to be the greatest death.

living English critic, Augustus Other Celebrities Named. John, by the most of those who The old civilian members, who know, is rated as the supreme liv- are entitled to write "0. M." after ing British painter and Epstein, their names, are Sir Edward El-born in a New York ghetto, is hall- gar, the

greatest living British ad by many specialists as the musical composer: Sir J. J. Thom-greatest living sculptor, with no. son, granted the Nobel Prize for peer anywhere.

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