1941-07-29 — Page 12

"Tuesday,

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Professor Huxley

GOD AND THE WAR

And

Science

Religion

BY JULIAN HUXLEY

Famous Biologist and author of many bril- liant contributions in the field of modern scientific reasoning, He is Secretary to the

London. Zoological Society of

us that there is something uni- versal in the world which trans-- conds all particularity, of time or space or human variety.

Since it incorporates

Dur

THE problem of God has this-in doing away with all been troubling a great idea of personality of God, many people for a number of and also all idea of God being years, and now the war has a power behind and in "But control of reality. rendered it acute.

what is left?" A great deal. In the most general terms, how can an allwise and all- God would still denote some. powerful Divinity tolerate thing very real indeed-the war and cruelty and suffer. Whole complex of material matter and material law-some- only be set up on the basis of and spiritual forces by which thing external, given, and in- genoralising from particulars,

explicable.

ised by the "Hongkong Telegraphy to theological difficulties.

Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations irdinance, 1936. Such new as hear the Indication "U" is received in Hongkong as the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who r serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

WHAT "FREEZING" MEANS

*

Death,

the untamable

aspirations, it is an urge to a better life. Since it reminds us of the existence of general idenls and of particular efforts to realize them, It is a support and comfort and a very present help in trouble. Since ideals can

*

the idea of God must include our ing on such a large scale?

☆ we are surrounded, in so

individual aspirations, our con- crete pets of love and under- The time is ripe for a real

far as they interact with our

THE Third Person represents standing, our separate attempt revolution in theological out- religious sense. This.com- something equally given, und at righteousness. Thus God is look; the idea of God will plex is not just the forces of equally inexplicable, but inter- what the theologians call im- nal-man's abstract ideas of manent as well as transcendent: cease to have any real signi- nature; nor is it only the truth and righteousness, those the Kingdom of God in its most ficance except to a small

sum of human ideals and categorical imperatives of the essential aspect is within us, and spirit which well up to impose a there is a real sense in which we, minority, and the religious moral laws. It is both of moral law, those feelings of in- is individuals, can be united impulse will be checked by these, but it is these only as spiration or communion which with God.

arise when untapped elements felt and organised by the of mind suddenly make contact with the organised self or ego. human personality as

And the Second Person, the AND the difficulties fall away. God, in the sense in which mediator between the others, whole. we have

represents human life as incur I have used the term, is made THE reason

nating spirit in' matter.

by man, not man created by God. reached this position is clear. It is, on the one hand, forces of nature, suffering, The three are distinct, but are if there is suffering and war, it the pressure of social tabus, all aspects of one reality. For, is because we have not made modern science, our God good enough, and not through our increase of blind fate, standards of according to

there is but a single world-stuff. believed in it actively enough. It is still too early to deter-knowledge and understand-truth and righteousness-all Lifeless matter is world-stuff at When we look back on the his- mine precisely the effects that ing, mostly but by no means these and much else can a comparatively low level of or- tory of religion, it is clear which some of the world-stuff of this Jehovah was a much better God the parallel netion of the United entirely scientific knowledge, enter into the complex of ganisation. Life developed when enough that God does change. States and the British Empire and our increase of control impinge on the mind of planet reached a new and higher than the cruel God of the Aztecs in freezing Japanese credits will

over nature on the other. man; man's tendency to or level of organisation. And man's or the all-too-human Gods of have on Japan. But a very good

The ordinary intelligent man ganise his knowledge and his mind has evolved from the sim- ancient Greece; but the Chris- feelings, his desire for under- per mental qualities of animals. tian God was a considerable im- idea can be gathered by quoting

who knows anything about standing and for propitiation, There is no break in continuity provement on Jehovah. In this between us, with our highest fact that God can change und some figures.

science can no longer believe his ideals of virtue, his comple emotions and ideals through the develop, lies the central hope of

inanimate world-stuff. in miracles, or the Bible tion and self-abasement-these polyp and the amoebe, down to religion for the future.

* story of creation, or the idea and much else enter into the re- of a personal God making nal complex of forces; and the forces of nature do what finally it is his capacity for ex- NOE the personality is taken facts of religious conversion, which makes the reaction inspiration, and the like no religious one.

means

facts and forces

mentary instincts for self-asser-

action of his mind to the exter

as sacred

out of God, most of our

New Super

He happens to want. The periencing things n theological troubles disappear. U.S. Dive

Bomber

1

In 1938, for example, 34.4 per cent, of Japanese imports came from the United States and 20.2 per cent. from the British Em- piro-a total of 54.6 per cent. On the other hand, only 15.8

God is no longer all-wise, all- -per-cent. of the Japanese export

-powerful, all-loving. It (for wo Under the influence of our all cannot now say He) is no longer trade went to the United States longer seem to demand the

God, |and.19.9 per cent. to the Empire personal intervention of a but incurable tendency to pro- unchanging or eternal.

own personality into like science, say, or art, becomes

By Dan Rogers —a total of 36.7 per cent. These Deity, but can be understood ject our figures assume considerable im- | rationally through our new the world around us, "to per a product of evolving humanity United Press Staff Correspondent

sonify impersonal forces and and must evolve with it. It is

a reminder that we live in a BUFFALO, N.Y., July 28 |portance when it is appreciated knowledge about human abstract ideals. religion has

endowed this X or God with world of external and alien fact, (UP). The United States has a that the freezing of credits psychology.

personality or super-personality. (special licensing

Primitive peoples personi- What the modern world has to capable of giving us erucl knocks dive bomber that can out-por- and resisting our wishes. It is form any aeroplane in the a reminder that the framework world, including the famed Ger. arrangements apart) that the fied facts of nature-the do is to take this fictitious per-

of our life is bigger and moro man Stuka, according to experis Japanese are unable to continue sun, the sea, love, wisdom, sonality out of God again.

Christian theology is often extensive than our individual here.

Built by Curtiss-Wright Aeronau- imports from the United States Later religions put the and the Empire except to the divine personalities behind accused of being incomprehen- selves, or than our separate

the facts, not in them-sible because of its central nations or communities. It is tical Corporation, the bomber does experimental number XSB2C-1 for extent they can acquire currency.Neptune behind the sea, doctrine of Trinity in Unity. the result of collective experi.not have a name yet. It has only balances by exporting to them. Venus behind love.

Still However, if you accept the ence, and represents a collectivo the Navy acceptance tests. Lieut. very profound interpretation of which the individual can refresh spector at the Curtiss-Wright plant,

Navy's hopes. violin, trumpet saxophone-to your S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd. As Japan has seen fit to adopt later all the different diving previous argument this is a pool of wisdom and comfort in Hugh R. Neiman, Chlet Navy In- "freezing" reprisals, this factor personalities were reduced reality. The First Person of the himself. Since it incorporates said the bomber had surpassed the is automatically eliminated, to one-a single omnipotent Trinity then represents man's our abstract ideals of righteous-

The 1938. figures are by no God in control of all the experience of the means a true guide to the cur-forces of nature, including, rent situation, inasmuch as that human nature. (That is an GRIN AND BEAR IT exports from the British Empire over-simplification, but is

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essentially true). And in the have been grently reduced by

few decades Divine] last wartime necessity. For ap Power has been receding proximately nine months there further into the background, has been no exporting to Japan His control getting more and of iron and steel scrap, nickel, more indirect, His immed- platinum, cobalt, copper,iate contact with events] aluminium, graphite, zinc, Indus- more problematical, until trial diamonds, asbestos, mica, God in the usual theological crossbred wool, copra, cotton, sense has faded into little than a thin-spun wolfram, rubber (except from more Japanese plantations in North metaphysical embroidery on the facts, rather as the Borneo); from Indin iron-orc, chrome, bauxite; from Canada, Cheshire Cat in Alice in zine concentrates, lead, bauxite, Wonderland faded into a and from New Zealand, wool.mere smile.

Additionally there has been a

big cutting down in the export of pig iron, manganeso and jute from India, lead from Burma, non-crossbred wool from Aus-

☆

I BELIEVE that the overdue revolution in

tralia and South Africa. The theology consists simply in biggest single Japanese exports are the silk which goes almost exclusively to the United States, war machine, but In this respect she the proflis on which are essential for subsidising rice-growing, while next in export importance are cotton goods to the British Empire.

has only started to scratch nt the surface and products from these treas cannot hope to replace the vast imports from the democracles which to now denied her. How rapidly the effects of these economie sanc- tions are likely to be felt in difficult o estimate, but their very inposition It is true that Japan has at her command through the annexation-of a grave threat to the future of Tupan, and one which in going to Manchuria and parts of northern Chinu additional supplies of raw have a more salutary result than a thousand official protestations from materials and minerala necessary for

Washington and Whitehall, trade or for the maintenance of her

"As far as I personally am con- power of ness, truth, and so on, it reminds cerned," he said, "I'll not rest until

By Lichty

UA PAS ME, Al het Pok

"I hate Ladies' Day-women can always think of "nastior insults to scroam than mon !."

our Navy earriers are filed with these ships. It is the steetest dive bomber ever built."

Speediest Built

The plane is said to have a top speed 100 miles, an hour faster than exlating types, and the ability to fly. twice as far and remain in the air four and a half hours longer than any present dive bombers. It carries a bomb load of 2,000 pounds against a German Stuka's 500 pounds.

The is powered with a Wright cyclone motor which turns up close armed

to

ship is

2,000

with a

It is

a full circle. The ship's top speed never has been reached but it probably can dive in excess of 500 miles an hour and safely withstand the pull-out.

This correspondent rode the gun- ner's cockpit of the bomber in a dive from 7,000 feet to 3,000 feet recent- ly. The pilot was Lloyd Chlid, Curtiss-Wright chief test pilot who once dived at 570 miles on hour:

Trial Dive

turret er machine-gun

After strapping on a parachute and signing a release fit ence of nc- cident, I climbed into the gunner's seat and Child gave the ship the gun, Soon we were in a steep climb and within a very short the had reached 7,000 feet, Chiki. looked at me and smiled. We were "going over the The altimater began spin- hump." ning and the wind screamned past.

to ba Nose down, we seemed

tearing

at the earth

Had I been the ren

rear man on a bombing mission it would have been ny duty to warn Child through the when να communication phone reached 3,000 foot by shouting ["muck." Thus we could pull out of the dive between 3,000 and 2,800 feet and not be destroyed by our own "homb The bomb goes at 2,000

fest

.