Novissima verba: last words 1920

발행: 1921년

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It is a liopesii sigillo find a popilla Prelate nour ancient Chureli attachin with resollite vigou and in scientisi spirit uel complex sociat problem asPopulation the statisties os birili and maternity the future of ur Raee, migration, the Empire, Patriolism an international Brotherhood. What

popular eat hWords, What avolarite nostrums, and

mendaciolis falla dies are cui to the bone by the Dean's masteri use of the logicalanifes Withat he spealisas a priest should his scientisio nowledge infused with religio as ei as illi morality. here is nothin in t of the vaguenes of the popular Sermon, of the sentimentalism of the philanthropist. It is thevoice of a hinker o foetet who is entiret out- spolien, ,ho is nos afraid o teli truthito hieli heignorant masses arealind, and whicli the experiendedare apiclo oon eat o disguise.

The mos terribie of his fore ast is the picture hedruw of the future of the Englisi race. Me re Wilnessing the deos ne of the industria revolution os 160 years ago Themancer o Industrialismias'egunto mortify, and the en is in sight V p. 1013. In

trafingas in unwholesonae cities, and the ambitionos organi sed a bour to et more in materia valitethan f hooses to produce-wil forcemur impossibie population to e redueexand ah to coianir lite fo

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grow ood It is a disma forestast epending onthe condition-i statesmen, orkmen, and capitalisis

ali continue to hold by thei present habit an ideas. For in pari, Uthin 200 years ather o libera a limitis time.

The recent revolution iniuriaritamentar system has desiveredive Britain and the Empire to militonsos me and women ho are ulteri ignorant both ofeconomi certainties an os internationa relations.

tia Bolfhevisis is the essene os olfhevisin is thepurpos to give the manualciabolarer the sole controlo ali labour and the entire enjoyment of the produeto their ork. To his arxian result politieians, philanthropisis, and socia reformers combine to leadb a series of graditate an disquised surrenders. The promiSe compromise an Capitulate. It is the 'edside manne V of our Ministers. I would nos a that mortification has egiin, and Plook sor a recover of health within two generations rather ilia 200 years But in m darkeriour I canse a vision es ur glorious England redueed, after passing through long and eruet susserings, tote foroedio gro iis o vn ood, o sive again in pure at an intoueh with Nature, and without the age sor artificialenjoyments. Our beautitui, ut very moderate,

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Holland aster iis de line at the end of the seventeentheenturv. an States of ur Englisti rade ill e prosperous an growin in many paris of the globe. In the meantinae, at our present population illenjo a stationar conditio of health, Conteniment,andieaee. Thessate of the other hal is silence.

The Dean a I have aid, is quite as uel a reforme in religious as in sopia organisation. Indeed,

the large par of his book is devoted o movemenis in Chiarches, Roman an Anglican an to the spiritua problem os mystioism an immortality. With these I have no usi es t deal. Ut, a RChureliman Dea Inge is quite astu'spolienissae son Socialism. profound reconstructio is demanded, 'e says. he ne type o Christiani tywill e more Christia than the old, eoaus it illi, more morat V p. 135 essa on Bisho Gore and

account of these exquisite hori poenis, and of the incessant attempis to translate them, oecupies more

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bul has a plain thought starising in iis brevity, and yet haunting the memor b iis grace. The historyof this onderiti collectio is a e to the Greehgenius-by the long ages ver hicli it lived, and greW, the various land and the diverse types of culture in hich tiourished. Τhe non-scientis publie is quite right in takin alivet interest in Professor instein's ne theor of Space, ut quite ronii they as to have the theorymade plain to them. In delati it an onlyae madeintelligibi to those ho re verse in the ighermathematios, an indeed the ver recent earning inter apices of the highest mathematies. The whocaretuli stud ali that has been published by Pr fessor Eddington, Sir sive Lodge, Dr. Crommesin, Professor Wildon Carr, and others in the Times may se three thing I that a profound shoc has beengive to current ideas bout pace, Time, an allabsolute theories abolit the Universe; 2 that for

praetica purposes ur ordinar geometry and astronom need hardi an correction; 3 that theywho destre o follo out Professor instein s vast, subile, an intricate calculations must flee them-selves in the very recent geometr of four dimensions and the like mysterious noVettieS.

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For myself, ahingi pretension to suchlearning, Lam interestedint in the signa reactionis the ne vtheornon the generat philosophy of the Relative. Alithe more so beeause Xaeti fift years ago Pwrotean essa to ho that ali absolute ideas abolit pace, Time, the Universe, o the geometrio an physicalconditions of the woridiuiside the range of Our immediate observations are futile. Me have not, and cannot have, an proo that ou law of nature and of things exist uiside of the human in in the modein hicli e conceive them. Does the Infinite Universe through pace Conformo the modes of

mind of the human mites hieli inhabit this planetaryspeck The objective order of the Universe,

Wrote, a b ulteri disserent rom ou conceptions of it even pace, ime AEther, Gravitation areinlyour human ideas the best explanatio of Our observations e have et given. It is possibi thenare onlyour reams. For myself the instein revoliitioni sciencer has give me no hock It ni falis in

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enemies l-peace is no made by the biggestan mos powersu of Our comrade in War. Peae is made-biit no rest. Peaee Pen a VaStarranos mos arduous an menaein problems . urconditio seem more ut o tot an peril hancit was in the autumni 1918. In theirst place the so- calle Treat of eae an iis monstroii Covenantare impossibie ruinous, uicidal-an must at neebe recast. To modis it in detes is no enough. t musti reeast, and that in the absen et iis principalauthor An then, inextricabi e tangle in the Treaty and the Covenant, tremendous obligations sieon S to reconstruet nations in Europe and in Asia. A the fame time, ou own Parhamentar system is in dissolution illiin and without an Labour prob

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The withdrawal of the Ailieri an Republic romthe cause of the Allies-even is it e no final ut

temporary-has reduce Europe to a series of

dilemmas Theoreat o Peace angs o the Covenant the Covenant angs o an effective League os attons the operative League os attonswas designed i meet the actionis r. Wilson, hois designated to summo the Sessions as also he was

the officia an irremovable resident of the nited States. In his colossa state-mate of at the Great Powers sitit reatly permanent canae setiled Theirvas schemes of reconstructio are stili hardi morethan ratis an programmes These ast schemes

were easibi only by the norinous forces and theparamount authorit whicli the hel colleolivet atthe Armistice. In November, 1918, the had sive mission o me in arm flushe with victory, and nothing ut desperate rabbies to resis them Theycould have imposed thei ternis mali Europe. Fourtee monilis have passed. he eopte clamoured ob demobilised therave mission aremo hardi onemission Foris ea the Powers have rangle and intrigued against ach ther. hei credit ismone; the are defied insulted, and triched their ownpeopte complain and threaten them at home Andtheinly one of the PoWers hich was not exhaustedan ruine wili have o more to do illi them, and refuses to hare in the wiu responsibilities he has

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For the momen it is in vain to ope that the American eopte id soon relent an bring help, invat to callispo the League o Nations. As elleat iapo Baal. Unti the League is a solid united, and recognised power With internationat authority, and controssin a leas armies of a mission or more, perfecti equipped the can do nothin excepi

tentii of the fore and the prestige the possesse in

solvent. Whilst the talios reorganising the Middie

Europe Settsin in eae the Bathans, removin the Turkish ower rom Europe, protectin Armenia, Syria an Palestine, reconstructin Persia an Mesopotamia-do the realis that any one of thes may mean alew war Stili more, do the realis that our

Theae to the Labour problenis of the wori hesin the attitude of workmen to the principies as essas to the praetide of the oviet Governnient of Russia. None ut the more violent groups of Socialisis have anything ut repudiatio of the ferocious tyrannywith whicli Lenin and Troisknare trying to carry Ut the fundamenta doctrines of the MarXia creed. The important question is-How far do Socialisis generali hold by the basis of the Bolfhevis system-

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the domination o societ by the manual labovi ers, by force, i and when possibi an necessary Light may be throwmon thisi studyin a book put out by the Independent Labour Pari in thei Librar and published by the Nationa Labour res of anchester, London, an Leicester I he Dictatorshipes the Proletariat by aut auishy, no translated by H. J Stenning. auishy, as the editor very trulysays, is the mos eminent Socialist writer of the Continent. An Austria by birili, he live in Germany an in England has orked ali his life illi the Minorit Socialisis, edi sed the remainsit ari arx, and in 188 founded the eue Zeit. Kart auishmis the ablest and Ost systemati eX- ponent of Socialismi the arxian type of whichaeis, illi soni disserendes, the legitimate heir. Hisbook, hieli is a criticismi Russian Bolfhevism, Waspublished justietore the Armistice of 1918 in Vienna. The preface to the Englisti translation, hiis admit- ting that the have made mistahes, ' that the oviet

olos and judiciat, is that the dictatorshi of the

Soviet is not democracy, but is the tyranny ona sectio otii of the proletariat, explaine an perhaps

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justified by the loca conditions of the Russian people,

but is notoriae Socialism, an is no possibi in Vester nations here democrae is established. Democrae and Dictatorshi are irreconcitabie, he says, and the whole proletariat of the worid is attache to the principi os genera democracy. Lentu's dictatorshimis no democratic-an Socialism ithou democrae is linthinhabie.

Kart auish is ready to ait the ascendane of Soeiely by the proletaria and thei contro of the State, is it e secured by democrae an no by dictatorship. The Russian Revoliation has for the irst time in the histor of the wori made a Socialist

Party the rulers of a great Empire. o Onder that the proletarians of at countries have halle Bol-shevism. The realit os proletaria rule eighsheavier in the scale tha theoretica considerations. But the errori Bolfhevisis is in obtaining rule by the wron methods-b imposin a dictatorship hiclidentes liberi to ali defies ther proletarians, and does no include easanis T assume that these dictatoria method are applicabie to ester nations is the defianee o demoerae an is false arXism. larx alway thought it possibi that in England and America the proletaria might eaeefuli conquerpolitica power. Confining the ouilook o trade interest narrows the ind, and this is ne of thedrawbacks to mere Trade Unionisin. Democracysignifies ille o majority, ut not les the protection

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