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ESCAPE FROM SUDDEN DEATH

This poem was written by Julian Bell, whose death in

the Spanish War was reported recently

BUT the grey skeleton may stand more close Than sixty years a-cupboard: flying chance May jolt her shuttles to a swifter dance. And Death be nearer than we could suppose.

The other day I saw his face.

True but for half a moment's space. But now a shadow's at my back, and grows *As if a guttering candle burned apace.

Thinking of you, it had been hard to go To the damp worms, and solitary sleep: But were you gone? How little I've to keep You in my mind. How little do I know.

As ploughman near some ancient mound Have an old treasure found, Straight buried it again, and doing so Scarce called to mind gold glimmering under-

ground.

A handful of poor memories, there is all: Oh, well enough, if only I not know The more profound, hidden extent of you. My.knowledge mocks whatever I recall.

Could we but snatch a hasty spring. And snare the god, not yet a-wing. * Hear nightingales before the cuckoos call, Hear to brave primroses the skylarks sing. Then let us fill a summer with delight Forestalling slower time, and swifter fate, And make the flowery pomp our subject state, And garland memories both for day and night.

Pan and Apollo let us pray

For the wild rose and wreathed bay, “And, when we've spent our gifts in the gods'

sight,

Look back upon a happy yesterday.

From "Winter 'Movement" (Chatte and Windus)

PIECRUST CIVILISATION

-

DISTINGUISHED archaeologist By AN OLD STAGER has been holding a careful in-:

quest on the death of civilisations.

to the

The into

Inost

Dictator states preach war now, not as a vital defence against bar- barkan assault, but as a means in The efficient Coroner is Mr. Stanley a sad testimony to the decay that has itself of curing Internal disease. of men deliberate segregation twentieth century. In Casson, a well-known Oxford Don, set in. The and his exciting verdiet is embodied fact, reverts to the Bronze Are, only groups between which communica-

Lion is

is as deliberately denied is "a thrilling: volume, "Progress and without its gigantic up-lift.

fantastic

move back Catastrophe: An

An Anatomy of Human

Second Adventure." Quite

in antiquily only to the primitive conditions." Impartially I

Ifis general diagonisis of the symp- commend it to anyone sufficiently in Sumerian is the Egyptian civilisa

Yet it has bequeathed us prae- toms of civilisation's breakdown in terested in the destiny of the human ton.

value, and its de- any age is the failure of moral and race to devote a few hours to that tically nothing

cay came, despite an ideat geogra- material progress to keep equal pace. fascinating theme.

is a widespread popular phical cradle, from within and not I confess, if this diagensis is correct, There

first as very well may be, our present- superstition, fervently shared in even without. When the

circles though went to Erypt, declares Mr. Casson, day symptoms strongly suggest the the best democratic

and over-falal Inequality. G.

vved by its antiquity B.

The conillet long ago satirised by Mr.

whelmed by its multiplicity of gads, Fascism and Communism within manirind Shaw, that the of

one slow but astes, and ceremonies, what they national States is a normal develop- this globe has

primeval really found was a nation of fellahinment in the process of disintegration. steady advance

ruled with a rod of iron by a Society "The suppuration that ensues takes and of Antiquaries!

the form of demagogues and dicta- tors."

brutality, through

from

the Dark

light of twentieth century civilisation; that the minds of men have broadened with the process of the suns towards what Alfred Lord Temyson called "one increasing pur- pose,"

Middle Ages, towards the len

Britain's Long Peace

Grecks

A Doinnward Trend

Our own place in the pageant of the past is vividly stated by M. "The untappy League of Nations," Casson. "From A.D. 100 to A.D. says Mr. Casson, "failed almost at Mr. Casson effectually stays that 400 all British except in the north birth to justify itself, and grow to at the outset. He tells was pleasint and peaceful a land maturity, through the inner wicked. Jabberwock as that progress, which made greater as it is to-day. Never since haveness of man, still apparently ignorant

we hat PAX Britannica strides when men talked less about end that Ingled for the vast space

of this that to survive he must combine."

He tells us that America departed It does in fact occur on occasions, as

hundred years! But by from the venture through stupidity, except a fool would deny.of three nobody But that it is cumulative and inevi- A.D, 500 it had all vanished, and the Germany and Japan through malice, country had reverted to a condition and Italy "remnina only because she table no one win accept..

If

he can gel some of our up-to-which it had never perhaps seen be-believes ahe can do more damage fore." Yet the preceding standard inside than outside."He thinks civili- date emotionalists to digest just that of public security had been greater sation is not on the brink of collapse. one elementary fact, Mr. Casson will than at any period in British history but has already some years ago col- not have written his book in vain. before the middle of the nineteenth lapsed. "I wonder exactly how long He emphasises that We usually century. attach exaggerated importance to the relatively insignificant period of hunkin existence known as A.D. which is not yet two thousand years old, and not nearly enough to the preceding 548,000 years B.C.

Almost at a Standsti

And so

we come to our author's verdict on contemporary symptoms I am not quite convinced that this is as purely setentific as, his recon- struietion of the past. But it is im- pressively sincere. anl certainly

it will take us to awake to the fact that before our very eyes the world we ived in in our youth has passed away, and with it the main props of civilisation."

So there you have the net result of this scientifle crowner's quest. Yet Mr. Cusson is not a complete Jere- based on close selentifle analogy. miah. He drops in the very last

Ue reads all around us in Europe sentence of his remarkable book just- We throw a chest, and pat our- a hint at the reappearance of an age one tiny crumb of comfort. "Con- selves on the back, about our won-of Retrogression. The centrifugal seiousness of the position alone may derful modern discoveries, mechani- movement of States away from contribute to stopping the cel und otherwise, Mr. Caissons, re-common ideal of life. Is the modern trend of modern civilisation, garding the aeans through the im- disaster. The first step on this de-courageous cynic might perhaps pre- partial spectacles of archaeology, cline was the World War. "With the fer to scrap this decrepit brand of finds comparatively little evidence dead who perished in that cataclysm, civilisation, and look forward to an- of human progress in the last two there perished also the major part other acon rebuilding a better. Or thousand years,

and

boasted of international morality." no boll

would he really be a Superman? modern discovery even comparable with "the genius who first connected sparks with fire or associated copu- lation with childbirth for the first time." Attentively to ponder these scientifle assertions may be as intel- lectually bracing as a cold douche.

It Is an engrossing experience to follow Mr. Cosson on his shrewd re- searches into the dim and distant Holmes fiction past. No Sherlock

can furnish anything like the meti- culous skill and courageous Intuition that these arelineological sleuths dis- play in

of unravelling, amidst the dust

ce: turies, the faint

clues of human history.

Yet I doubt whether Mr. Casson's book will equal the best-seller circu- lation of the intest cheap detective thriller. It la comle what the ground- lings miss in art. Hterature, and life. will queue for some Indy

up callow improprielles who would shup full-blooded old Sru- tonlus like a plague. Perhaps it just as well. But certainly the High Brows can afford a quiet chuckle over the imbecililles of the Thick Ears,

velint's

Progress Intermittent

The oldest detected experiment in civilisation, erroneously called Pro- gress was made by the Sumerians In the Tigris-Euphrates valley. It endured, before being extinguished

the by Mongol invasion of three cen- taries after the Arab

conquest of for four tho Persia,

thousand years. Compare that security of tenure with the eight hundred years of Greece, the nine hundred of Rome, and the thousand of Byzantium. Mr. Casson shows us how twice the march of civilisation has been arrested and put back by a Dark Age, Brst after the collapse of the Hittite Empire- partly

due to neglect of sea power. by the way and then after the fall of the Roman Empire.

The plain moral is that: "Progress

Is an intermittent phenomenon, and not a continual move forwards." He

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