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THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

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14

A Non-Scientist Would Like To Do A Little

DEVENTING

Do you know what a

"Deventor" is? I didn't, until the other day. But I find I have wanted to be a "deventor" for a long time.

What is he, then? He is the opposite to an "inventor," the man who finds things out-whether he Aide out something of which the al- most invariable use is benefeent, like high-explosive bombs.

Weil, if a "deventor" is the op- posite to "Inventor," he is the man who concealey things, hushes

them

up, makes them as if they never

were.

Would you

the of mustard

donlows that

roughout the

to be the "deyen-

gas, of jerry-built

ster like a fungus

don'countrysides:

think you would.. Unless, of course, you happen to make your

WELL, you have felt exactly

the same thing, I know, regarding all the grisly laventions of modern scientific warfare. And, scientists apparently, no have the themselves.

They are aware of a certain' un-, dercurrent of reproach in the ¡S)", inopplere about them.

As they look round the world grid'

So

much for nitroglycerine,

have there not been times which you

have felt you would like to disinvent these inventions which have a more usun!

application to peace than to

wireless?

By

LOUIS GOLDING

war, like the telephone and the who wrote this at a time when hundreds of British scientists were meeting at Cambridge to

Have they not both seemed to you

at times a weasiness and an imper-discuss the results of their latest researches.

behold the illimitable carnage which the application of their discoveries to Warfare tas made possible, how good in

musi

use even more more ingenuity, to become deven-

bave

monster

living out of the traffic in mustard built up!" gas or jerry-built bungalows.

I know I would. There are a great many things I should like to dlainvent,

the Dorset Regiment walking along

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Beyond Control

aircraft

for

themselves

far

better

4

tinence, the harriers of thought and the destroyers of leisure?

The telephone For remember this.

There is no native race which has its energy and vitality.

Is there any art in which our age than bombing not produced satisfactory clothing and wireless are no more necessarily

thin is not inferior to the ages which have pohon gas are neces for sell, usually aeroplanes and

preceded us? I make no pronounce- can they but hold back in horror at sarity bad in themselves.

ment. the sight? How can they bill ex-

war they have what they now buy

1 merely ask a question. As servants of

discovered Despite They have nearly all

the devilishi activity we claim: "Lack what they have done with our inventions! We have been probably wrought as much destrue-

tion and sorrow as the more obvious sufficient agriculture for their needs. expend in the attempt to make inventors long enough! We

And though you might expect that money and pursue pleasure, are wa engines of calamity.

could give non-Europeans not in our inward souls lazier than patience now even And, on the other hand, the pos- Europe

sible good uses even of high ex- more leisure through labour-saving ever we have been in human his- furs, to pulverise the Frankenstein plosive bombs do not defeat

the devices, il longer expectation of life

tory before? Taboriously imagination.

through medical services, and

Mechanised They would be matchless, for in- more complete diet by imports and cultiva- stance, in the elimination of a ver- tenching them large-scale

tion for their own use what actu-

Just as the advertisements for cer- min-ridden slum.

And pokon gas has prevented vast ally happens?

tain physical foods procinim them But the mood, whether it lasts a areas of vegetation from being wiped

They have to work harder than a "pre-digested," so that even our There were two things I wanted day, a moment, passes. They know out by forust-swarms.

ever before as coolles to pay their organs are spared the tedium of do- to treat that way in Salonien during it is a trenchery to all they stand

taxes. Although infantile mortality ing the work they are designed for, Yet they remain on the defen- the war when I saw a Zeppelin loose for.

retains that 110 THE fact #bomb on a nice little corporal of hive.

Invention is evil or good has gone down somewhat, the aver- so is our spiritual food chosen for

RC expectation of life in British But the mood, whether it lasts a in itself, only in the application of India is, I believe 23 (opposed to make music for ourselves. We press So that, for instance, we no longer the breakwater, nnd reduce him to day. a moment, passes. Ther know it. And whether evil or good, no 60 in England).

button, and fo, the wireless cabinet few morsels of charred flesh. it is a treachery to all they stand one is ever going to disinvent any- Wanted to disinvent; one

Yet they remain on the defen- thing which has once been invented, And most Colenial peoples are un- emits it for us..

Once we played games: now, for When once things are. you can't der-nourished and sadly nourished.

part. we watch them, It is in that sense I interpret the make them as IL

If they never were, since they have no time to attend to the most presidential address inade by Lord any more than, you can start the their own agriculture (or, if they do, though we still give ourselves the Rayleigh before the British Associa- finally stilled heart again, or send have to sell so much of their own trouble of getting, by some means 1 don't know whether I hove lon Ior the Advancement of the stream upward to its source, produce to pay taxes) and have to or other, to the sports, ground.

Before long we shall mercly wanted more passionately on any Science a day or two ago.

In other words, we must get down live on imported or ready prepared

twiddle a knob in our own drawing- subsequent occasion to be a "deven- "Summing up what be learnt just as much to inventions usually food. tor." It was as if I saw in a single from the experience of the yzat," he thought

room and we shall be watching the good

as to inventions usually

tennis finals at Wimbledon, or the flush all the agony which, a score of raid, "I think we may say that the thought

try to appraise years later, was to make of Abys applica.tom

of fundamental

NO much for the impact of Test match at the Oval, or wherever dis- them

them for what they are really worth. sinin, of Spain, of China, a plane- coveries in selence to purposes of For, believe me, I think wẹ exag-

our brave "civilisation" I might be. tary shambles.

am not saying that I would like and all its gadgetry on non-European war is altogether too remote for it gernte their value enormously.

to disinvent the wireless. I need I have done no more than read of to be possible to control it at the I think that humanity as a whole peoples.

L these later horrors, or heard them

was much better off before its free- Are. we, as human beings, much merely recall its use for the sick in whole idea that scientific dom of thought was cluttered up happler than we were before the hospitals or for ships at sea. spoken of, though they have been

But i think you will syn

sympathise duplicated a hundred thousandfold. men are specially responsible for the with gadgets than it has been since. days of electricity and steam? There

Оль

there Quayside

in application of selence to warfare is Certainly our vaunted inventions is no question at all that the sciences with me when I say there are mo- Salonica happened before my a delusion barn of imperfect know, have added lille bliss to the teem- of healing

have ments when I feel that the human and sanitation blinded eyes and to my uppailed ledge of the real course of the pro- ing millions of the coloured races.

lengthened our lives and freed them race as a whole would have been not been In- of discovery."

from a good dent of unnecessary hoppler had radlo

vented. “Go back, devil's spawn!" a voice It is when the discoveries have The Two Gifts

There are moments when I feel whimpered within me. But the been made by the

But what about the actual quality that ill news and trouble travel fast shattered fragments of the bomb did perhaps long years after they have Mr. Geoffrey Gorer, one of the of the lives we live, with bodies not reassemble, nor the Zeppelin re- lain dormant, that the prowling most brilliant of our younger writers, freed from some of the maladies enough of their own accord.

could well have spared myself turn to its infernal stable. They did hacks in the laboratories of the war- goes so far us to say that the only which once se darkly clouded our fou not go back. Nor did that slain lad mangers get hold of them and adapt two concrete gifts worth anything horizons? return to Dorset again to tread the them to the uses which, if they are that European civilisations are cor- The works of art which an age ledge the telephone has brought me.

i

ito, bombs.

In A Flash

beurt.

the

sive,

pure scientists,

pain.

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the

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There are calculating machines the face. Indeed, it would have telepathy is, or how it works.

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Yet it is that sort of evidence, that reckon for us, book societies The was to be held, and as it was likely been dificult for

outsider to

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definition "the on commonest than one person was wishful of being elected.

munication of Ideas from one mind to he disliked the idea of walking about to prove that there is such a another by other means than the re- home, then, he arranged to stay the sensation as telepathy. But the case But, while one candidate toured cognised channels at sense"--is va- night with some friends.

I have given and I could quote! the district, the other, a woman, sat gue and unsatisfactory.

more is not vague. There is a de-

I am apprehensive of the time nt home. Each morning she devoted

of uneasiness. ceremony finite feeling

More-

when a gadget will be lavented to The flaw in the definition is this: he began to feel uneasy. an hour to influencing the voters by many people believe they have re- vague, uncomfortable feeling, which the truth he told his friends that about the only activity left in which It was a over, before the young man knew make love for us, seeing that love is telepathy. She stated that she was ceived messages from another per- he could not explain. But he be- something was wrong. conndent she could influence the

we can still display an individual vpters Rubconscious minds so that been thinking of the person who re- home. There was

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The value of this case is that it is style. they would vote for her!

no reason why not based on a dream, as so much ceived the message; but no one has this should be, for, when he left, his of the "evidence" is. It is a definite

Well, what chance have we of a It was a novel method of fighting yet been able to send a message "by parents were in perfect health; but waking Impression. But

race of "deventors" to counteract election. It was unique-and other means than the

the weak the so-long-uncontrolled activities of Buonomical.

But it was not success channels of sense" to another per-bearable, and he decided to go home. of proof that the father tried to get

recognised the feeling of uneasiness became un- link, as with most cases, is the lack the "inventors"? ful.

Pretty little. I fancy, as I have Despite the failure of this experi-

He told his hostess, and the friends in contact In fact, the definition has a sus he had decided to stay with, what percentage of cases where it can be

with his son. And the said before. ment, which rather pained the serious pleious likeness to what psycholo- was worrying him. He

1 Here and there you hear of experimenters, many people believe glats call wish-fulßiment;

told them proved that the sender of the mes-government stepping in rather use- In telepathy.

words, they have counted their would return. ife did

in other that if everything was all right he sage was thinking of the recipient is fully. I recall that in Hungary cer- before the

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say there is no such things en matzé Have been officially thing as telepathy, and those who oratilbited on the grounds that their staunch bellever. For hours he There are, however, many cases Too often the so-called evidence is say there is both are wrong! For Introduction would throw thousands will explain why he believes in it, where people have been influenced about someone who felt that a friend neither can produce evidence that of peasants out of employment. and quote cases to prove his thesis, in some way-usually attributed to or relation was fil. But when the will prove their case and disprove

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