1935-05-31 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

1988

Legacy To Posterity

PROSPECTS OF THIS CIVILISATION

MAKING LIFE TOO EASY.

Sir Thomas Oliver, in his pre sidential address at the annun goneral meeting of the institute of Hygiene in Londen said 800 to 300 years had been the average duration of some of the civilisa- tions of the past.

"If history repeats itself, door similar fate await the civilisa- tion of the age in which we live?

"Nations, like individuals, grow old and show signs of decay, but there is the opinion that, owing to freer international communicn- tions, the shortening of distances and the wide applications of the victories of science and their re- juvenating reaction upon mankind, not only will racial decline be

the postponed. but

march of civilisation will continue.

"The fall.of nations was not al- ways due to senility or to the pro- longed tenure of a high position. It was sometimes due to endemic disease, as has been attributed the decline of Greece to malaria.

"In other instances, the ex- cresences of civilisation contri buted to their decay. It is to this circumstance that the fall of Rome has been ascribed; so that with our. knowledge of the effects of the unrestrained excesses of the

Mother City and her far-flung Em- pire there is a feeling that, the fate which hefel! Rome need not necessarily overtake modern civili- sation....

"But let us ask ourselves: are there any instances on record of any nation having profited by the experience of another?

"Extravagance, luxury, and the thirst for wealth are in our day more universally distributed; and as regards the harmful influence of those is history likely to prove falso? Are these. racial weak- nesses likely to lift civilisation to u higher status; or must there be a halt, a lessening of these allure- monts, and a return to a simpler life and to all that was best in a past which made possible the civi lisation of to-day?

"It comes to this-Are the con- ditions which are operative at present creating a higher type of man than that of past centuries? There may be a higher average of intelligence, but are there as many units of high altitude?

DANGER OF THE MACHINE

"Legislation To fostering a greater measure of social comfort and 18 lessening the hardships of toll. In industry physical bur dons have been lightened by the use of machinery; in commerce: results are obtained by ready means to an end; and in banking, by the use of mechanical devices, mental effort is discounted and fewer clerks are required.

Unisas as oparation, shortly to be performed, in successful, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, world-famous teacher of blind Helen Keller, will herself be plunged into total blindness. Mas Keller (left) now is the comfort of the woman who was her "ayes” for so many years. They are shown in photo.

Mrs. Violet Van Der Elst, British millionaira's wife, is cons tlaning her campaign for abolition of capital punishment unaided, and without much encouragement, despite failure of har "sitting strike" Sha parked her car in front of prison where a condemned man was being held, broadcasting attacks on authorities by loud. speaker, and refused to leave until police moved her and car by force. She hired demonstrators to parade before other prisonë.

ler than the average, yet (how-Australian brothers and sisters ever much this may apply in in-whereby a new race is arising; dividual cases) the fact remains not so much as a result of man's "Forty years ago I knew in- that it is the people and races interpolation as by the action of timately in the North of England with the larger brains who are in natural agencies such as environ- the treasurer of a large commercial the van of civilisation.

mant and climate. firm who could correctly add up

"We cannot but admit that be- “During recent years the hours yond human ingenuity there is a the three columns of figures in a ledger simultaneously. He did of toll all round have been higher power in operation than gradually reduced, and, so far, all man's will and to which the lat

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i "A to the good. There must be limits, ter must submit. Evolution is future generations than we had cases has enabled myriads of lives "Some of my hearers might con-howover, to the

reduction of the modus operandi of the power hoped for. the same cannot be of natives to be saved, and the alder this to have been a mis-hours as a sound and economic behind the universe, and when said of medicine. There is not tropics have been made compara- apending of an arithmetic gift but problem commensurate with in man interposes the action should the slightest doubt that generatively safe for the white races to the utilisation of a gift can never dustrial efficiency and foreign not be construed as an interfer-anaesthesia and antisopsis have live in.

competition. be an abuse of it.

"These are some of the real ence with its plan, but as an idone more for mankind in the last "Increased leisure does not effort in.co-operation.

century than all the centuries gifts which this age, through re: necessarily mean increased hap "If from the arts, which are as-rolled into ono since the Chris pearch and the heroism of mem- LADIES' piness. Ennul from lack of oc-sociated with the cultured side of tion era. A wider knowledge of bers of the medical profession, cupation is more tiring and exas-ifo, there is less to hand on to equatorial and sub-equatorial die are handing on to posterity." perating than the fatigue of work.

"How many comptometer clerks

will in the future be able to add

up fairly rapidly and correctly two columns of Agures at a time? Since the machine is doing all the work, there will be, less call upon the mental alertness of the elerk.

"By having our brain spared, and by getting things done for us by mechanical means, the op- portunity of learning to do things

"Thero aro vecnsions in which life may be made too easy. The great nations of the past and pre sent were reared in conflict and not in idle leisure, and the

remark applies same

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"Youth keeps challenging the right of its seniors, and is jealous for ourselves and by ourselves of them; while the seniors are en- vill bo lesscued. Can this be vious of the physical strength of ultimately for the future good of the younger men and of the pos the race?

sible opportunities in front of

"The main purpose of the brain them. The conflict will continue, is to give enjoyment of life. Sir and if the movement is given too Arthur Keith unhesitatingly states much rope and the elderly have

that civilisation has not added to to stop aside consequent upon the the size of the brain anything Incessant demands of youth and sinco jong before the days of its growing numbers, then, owing Greece and Rome.

There is reason to bolleve, in fact, that the opposite is occurring amongst modern people, und he gives an illustration of this the diminution in the average size. "of the brain of a race in India, being less in modern times than it was in Modanjodara, an, ancient city of India, dating back 5,000

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"To some extent man can alter

the course of evolution, as wit- mess the improvement in the breeds of domesticated animals by applying knowledge of the facts of, heredity and the result of Mandėliam; but just to what 4ge |tent-man-can- alter by his own; efforts the physique and mentality of the human race it is dimeült to

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