1941-07-29 — Page 4

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Professor Huxley

GOD

AND THE WAR

And

Science

Religion

BY JULIAN HUXLEY

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 rendered it acute.

control of reality.

"But

Famous Biologist and

us that there Is something uni-

cends all particularity, of time or space or human variety,

Olif

author of many bril-versal in the world which trans- liant contributions in the field of modern scientific reasoning. He is Secretary to the Zoological Society of

London.

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

In the most general terms, what is left?" A great deal. 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

generalising from particulars, the idea of God must include our individual aspirations, our con- 'crete acts of love and under-

and spiritual forces by which thing external, given, and in-

explicable. ing on such a large scale?

we are surrounded, in so The time is ripe for a real

far as they interact with our revolution in theological out: religious sense. This com- Thingersoll represents standing, our separate attempts something equally given and at righteousness. Thus God is Hongkong Telegraph. 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- as 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. theological difficulties. felt and organised by the of mind suddenly make contact

Tuesday, July 29, 1941. Wyndhon St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE profe "Special in the Telegraph" de mind by the "Hangkong Telegraph" to indicate news witiek in strictly "enpyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- rations Ordinance, 1915. Such new

bears the Indiestión "Up is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by tlin United Press Ascariations, who 15% serve ali rjęlits, and forbid repúblications. elther wholly or in part without previous arrangement

WHAT "FREEZING" MEANS

☆

And the Second Person, the AND the difficulties fall away.

human personality as whole.

શ

with the organised self or ego.

mediator between the others,

Death,

the

God, in the sense in which

THE reason we have

untamable represents human life as inear- I have used the term, is made reached this position is

nating spirit ir matter.

by man, not man created by God, 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 through our increase of blind fate, standards of according to modern science, our God good enough, and not knowledge and understand-truth and righteousness-all Lifeless matter is world-stuff at When we look back on the his- there is but a single world-stuff. believed in it actively enough. ing, mostly but by no means these and much else can a comparatively low level of or- tory of religion, it is clear entirely scientific knowledge, enter into the complex of ganisation. Life developed when enough that God doen chunge facts and forces which some of the world-stuff of this Jehovah was a much better God impinge on the mind of planet reached a new and higher than the cruel God of the Aztecs level of organisation. And man's or the all-too-humun Gods of have on Japan. But a very good over nature on the other. man; man's tendency to or mind has evolved from the sim- ancient Greece; but the Chris-

his knowledge and his idea can be gathered by quoting The ordinary intelligent man fanings, his desire for under. pler mental qualities of animals. tian God was a considerable im- 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, and

IT is still too early to deter mine precisely the effects that WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., Ltd. the parallel actions of the United States and the British Empire in freezing Japanese credits will

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in miracles, or the Bible tion and self-abasement-these polyp and the amoeba, down to religion for the future. from the United States and 20.2 story of creation, or the idea and much else enter into the re- inanimate world-stuir. per cent, from the British Em- of a personal God making action of his mind to the exter nal complex of forces; and pire-a total of 54.6 per cent. the forces of nature do what finally it is his capacity for ex- ONCE the personality is taken

The periencing things He happens to want.

as sacred On the other hand, only 15.8 facts of religious conversion, which makes the reaction a theological troubles disappear. per cent, of the Japanese export inspiration, and the like no religious one.

God is no longer all-wise, all- trade went to the United States longer seem to demand the

powerful, all-loving. It (for we Under the influence of our all cannot now say He) is no longer and 19,9 per cent. to the Empire personal intervention of a but incurable tendency to pro- unchanging or eternal. God, a total of 35.7 per cont: These Deity, but can be understood-ject-our-own-personality-into-like science, any, or art, becomes

By Dan Rogers figures assume considerable im-rationally through our new sonify impersonal forces and a product of evolving humanity portance when it is appreciated | knowledge about human abstract ideals, religion hag and must evolve with it. It is United Press Staff Correspondent a reminder that we live in a BUFFALO, N.Y., July 28 that the freezing of credits psychology.

endowed this X or God with world of external and alien fact, (UP).The United States has a personality or super-personality. means (special licensing Primitive peoples personi- what the modern world has to capable of giving us cruel knocks dive bomber that can out-per- arrangements apart) that the fied facts of nature-the do is to take this fictitious per- and resisting our wishes. It is form any aeroplane in the a reminder that the framework world, including the famed Ger- Japanese are unable to continue sun, the sea, love, wisdom, sonality out of God again, of our life is bigger and more man Stuka, according to experts imports from the United States Later religions put

Christian theology is often extensive than our individual here. and the Empire excopt to the divine personalities behind accused of being incomprehen- selves, or than our separate Built by Curtiss-Wright Aeronati- the bomber does the facts, not in them-sible because of its central nations or communities.

It is tical Corporation, extent they can acquire currency

It has only sea, doctrine of Trinity in Unity. the result of collective experi-inot have a name yet.

experimental number XSB2C-1 for Neptune behind the balances by exporting to them. Venus behind love.

Still However, if you accept the ence, and represents a collective the Navy acceptance tests. Licut. very profound interpretation of which the individual can refresh spector at the Curtiss-Wright plant, "freezing" reprisals, this factor personalities were reduced reality. The First Person of the himself. Since it incorporates sad the bomber had surpassed the

Navy's hopes. is automatically eliminated. to one-a single omnipotent Trinity then represents man's our abstract ideals of righteous- "As for as I personally am con-

The 1938 figures are by no God in control of all the experience of the power of ness, truth, and so on, it reminds means a true guide to the cur- forces of nature, including, rent situation, inasmuch as that human nature. (That is an exports from the British Empire have been greatly reduced by 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, coprn, 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-ore, chrome, bauxite; from Canada, Cheshire Cat in Alice in zine concentrates, leat, bauxite, Wonderland faded into a and from Now Zealand, wool. mere smile.

Additionally there has been a

big cutting down in the export of pig iron, manganese and jule from Indin, lead from Burma, non-crossbred wool from Aus-

over-simplification, but is GRIN AND BEAR IT essentially true). And in the last few decades Divine

I BELIEVE that the

overdue revolution in

trail and South Africa. The theology' consists simply in biggest single Japanese exporty are the silk which goes almost

these

exclusively to the United States, war machine, but in this respect she the profits on which are essential has only started to scratch at the for subsidising rice-growing, surface and products from while next in export importance reas cannot hope to replace the vast nto cotton goods to the British ports from the democracies which Empire..

rapidly

re now denied her. How the effects of these economle manc- tions are likely to be felt is

is dimeult to estimate, but their very imposition

It is true that Japan has ni. her command through the annexation of is n grave threat to the future of Marchuria and parts of northern Japan, and one which is going to

China additional supplies of raw materials and minerafa'necessary for d: trade or for the maintenance of her

have a more salutary result than a thousand official protestations from Washington and Whitehall..

By Lichty

"I hato Ladies' Day-women can always, think of nastier insults to acroam thân- mons. I?.

cerned," he said, "I'll not rest until

our Navy carriers are Alled with these ships. It is the sweetest dive bomber ever built."

Speediest Built

The planc sald to have a top speed 100 miles an hour faster than existing-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 beinb load of 2,000 pounds against n German Stuka's 500 pounds.

The ship is powered with a Wright cyclone motor which turns up close to 2,000 horsepower. It is armed with a power operated machine-gun turret sweeping a fuil circle.

never bas 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 n dive from 7,000 feet to 3,000 feet recent- ly. The pilot was Lloyd Child, Curtiss-Wright chief test pilot who (once dived at 575 miles an hour.

The ship's lop speed nov

Trial Dive

After strapping on a parachute. and signing a release in case of ac eldent, I climbed into the gunner's seat and Child gave the ship the gun. Soon we were in a sleep climb and within a very short time had roached feet. Child looked at me and We were "going over the hump." The altimeter began spin- ning and the wind screamed past. Nose down, we seened to be tearing. Int the earliı,

Had 1 been the rear' man on 'a bombing nilssion it would have been my duty to warn Child through the communication phone. when wo reached 3,000 foot by shouting mark. Thus we could pull out of the dive between 3,000 and 2,800 feet and not be destroyed by our own #bomb. The bomb goes at 2,000 feet,