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that she had to go to the m`ssion hospital." short, taking thought is immoral, and study | is an idea, a brand new and original idea, so CONFUCIUS Would not be so unreasonable as at least study on such transcendental and far as we know, we advance it for inspection to expect the Korean husband to do impractical lines-is vanity and vexation. by those who are not afraid to dandle even what Lord GasCOYNE-CECIL reports with This comes as a natural sequel to our two ugly babies of the mind. Man's brains dis- approval. We feel shy about speculating previous efforts, compl ting, as it were, if covered the syllogism. By that syllogism as to how many of his Lordship's brethren the others had not been quite so casual, a is man lifted above the beasts of the field. would dream of doing it. Still, so far we sort of trilogy of popularized metaphysics. Sir OLIVER LODGE would tell you so. Our have straightforward testimony only, and It is almost banally conventional nowadays new idea for a possible auswer is this may we are in duty bound to accept it. It does for a newspaper to discuss the unknowable, not the phenomenon of abstract thought be look, accepting those statements, as if the but as Hongkong has not hither.o reached the odour of the flower of what somebo ly— Korean enthusiasm and earnestness for the stage of the Silly Season Do we KIPLING, wasn't it?-called the man plant? Christianity are fairly claimed.
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believe?" correspondence, we would prefer Botanista inform us that the flower is mere- take his Lordship's chief bit of evidence. | to ignore it if it were not getting so intrusively an outcome of a gradual metamorphosis Examine his account of the phenomenon in our mail matter. Looking over a of the foliage lower down, that floral leaves which, he thinks, "should fill the breast of ¦ collection of translated Arabian adages, we are the result of a degeneration in the every in'ssionary in China with heqo'
quality of the sap. In any case, it is not Ch na would be Chustian in the near future, All speculative re earch ends in per- a Imitted that the lower animals are not he adds, if it could experience a like plexing uncertainty.
efflore went als; hat assuming that the awakening." It was at Pyeng-yang, af a "I sought in the great sea of theoritical | genus homo does monopolize thought, is it missionary meeting. There were no "mov-learning a bottom on which to stand-and | necessarily progress? May it not be due to
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26 were very closely akin' to those described in the journal of Jons WESLEY, WT cannot conceive, except on the hypothesis that he is one of these whom we have refer red to before as morally honest persons in a mental muddie. At the Pyongyang wanifestation, we read that with a rush a power from without seemed to take hold of the meeting." Europeus described its manifestations as terrifying. Nearly every body was in poignant mental anguish." Some sprang to their fert, shouting; others, rent with agony, clenched their fists and struck their heads on the ground. For four hours this se-ne (sic) went on, and the missionaries were hortorstricken, flight ned (sic) and reduced to tears, This slobbery scene went on for several days" aftor- | wards, during which the missionaries felt both horror and greitule at the con- fessional. "A trusted native pastor coll- fes el 10 adultery," for in fance, thus illustrating in one shot how the Kor ans are essentially decent and ca, er for Christ-asity. Another "trusted native preacher had misused his position to rub the mission." When his Lordship came later and saw these unemotional Christiass, so much n....
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HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD, K.C MG, C.B.. D.S.O.
degenerated sup? This would fit our thesis beautifully, and the underlying homology of all plaut foliar orgins would, by analogy, do the Socialistic trick of levelling us down with the jungle folk. Alas! already the analogy betrays us and our ridiculous thesis, for most people love flowers, and the botinists have taught us their use in the “The object sought in abstruse study is
wo HI. So there
are just where we either a truth which cannot be known, dr a began, at the merey of the dogmatists—que vain thing which it is u» less to know." | wave dishing As against auo her. At least, The intelligent Arab, be it observed, puts with fl ckering courage ws may persist that no value on what have been pily called this futile excursus his to som; extens war- intellectual gymnastics. He reeks not of ranted the thesis. After this, we wil be effort as its own reward. Thought farns wise as tue Aribs, aid, leaving valu thought's sake is not in his vocabulary. We abstractions, et ck to more miterid mitters, are, of course, merely observing another such as the awakening of China. rendering of the verdict of Kobaleth, but with the profound pessimism of Ecclesiastes left out; it also ignores the recklesss summing up of the n peuthe loving Otaar. Could we but trust the charity of the theologians, we would enlist the par- | ab'e of the 1 lies in the service of our thèsis,
A mig of the Hongkong Legislative but we dread the charge of irr. vereneanel was held on the 8 h instant in the
Comucil Cibir. as much as we loathe the thing itself. We may, prhaps, venture to cite the beaut ful parable of the garden of El-n, and to point. out that the orig-ual sin was that of ab- sorbing koo vle lge of good and evil, of, in
His Excellency Colonel C. H. Darling, | fact, taking thought shout matters too deep Geral Officer Commanding the Troops.
Hou, Mr. F. H. MAY (_olonial Secretary). for creature, whise sole duty was to live and
Hon. Mr. W. Regy DAVIES (Attorney. be happy in a garden, a pair of inuoe nt
(ceral). animals. The i has indieited in the foldy
Hau, Mr. 4. M. THOMзOY, (Colonial Trea phrases,
Back to the land," Back to
sar.r.) Nature," and The Sample Life," would Hon. Mr. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G. (Director seem to lead logically to the Age of Inno. of Public Works).
Hon. Mr. Is the best. ided, the ultim de
W. BAEWIN (Registrir Generali. decision of man when weary of the un-
Hon. Caminander BastLR. H. TAYLOR, R.N. solvable problem, to be as the lilies that toli
(Harbour Mister) bler than the indecent ami brutal Japan not, or as the beasts of the fild, which | ese heathen, he was struck by the Lok of WHITMAN envies because they do not li quiet devotion that shone on their faces awakat uight bemoaning their sins? "Oh, Well, his Lordship declares that Christianity | but," is terjects the decent min, persuaded transcends all the faths, not only ex- that he is worthy of n dir cassification pressing the aspirations of humanity, but than the animal kingdom, that he has a making those aspirations poss ble of attain-destiny, something to do, perhaps even nient. It is nearer to those Kore in heart, leave the worl I better than he found it,” he thinks, than it is "t those of the most "Oh, hut, come now.
What are our brains sincere body of European Christians.' We for?
Then will follow one of his self- willingly credit him with honesty as well evident propos tions-these being such a as went muddle, on 1 all we can do is to efort, as they sive thinking that life feel sorry for the waste of t me, trouble, and would not be worth living if wo money spent in attaining results which, on no more than the beasts that perish. As the face of them, any normal vision is bound our thesis is thu thinking is immoral, we to assess at their true value.
will not request that thou;httul con.! sideration I given to that self-evident truth. Toought ah ut the happiness of duty and the duty of happiness is apt, (Daily Press, November 29th.)
anyway, to be of the regressu í ad Though it is usually the young persou infinitum" order, and the science of epis. with neglected hair and careless tie whitemology makes me a mad. We have talks about the Why, Whence, and Whither, most human beings give the ma ter more than an occasional thought. Our thesis for the moment, not, we trust, overly startling, is that too many do so; that, in
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Hon, Dr. Ho Kat, M.B., C.M., C.M.G. Hon. Mr. H. E, POLLOCK, K C.
Hon. M E. A. HEWETT.
H».... Mr. 34, KESWICK,
Hon. Mr. WEI YUK,
Mr. A G. M. FLETCHER ('lerk of Councils).
MINUTES.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read, and confirmed.
PAPERS.
The COLONI L SFCRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the following papers :-Report of the Examiners of Queen's Cllege for the year 1916 07; Despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies relating to ths servious of the Snitary Commission: Report of the Direc'or
of Public Works for the year 1906.
FINANCIAL MINUTES.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table Financial minutes Nos. 50 to 62, and movəd that they be referred to the Finance Committee.
lu ding so he said- Nambers 61 and 62 were not printed in time to sirculate to hoo. items and I shall be able to explain them in members, but they are comparatively small the Fans Committee.
The COLONIAL TREASURER Boonded, and the motion was agreed to.
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