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(y. kip-m. QlilitfFlll tn every consume.‘ i1. Cau- arlu .~ 4t 1a,... one 11c... in the brief submitted

1...; .....~.i- .i,.. 1.. ti... l\'.>\\('ll Commission on i..,,,,,.,.,.,,,.|';,M...nil tclitliiuls by the Laiiadfzizi .\l.n. mcizirt-r. _\_~~"\"l.tlillll. \\e refer to tln:

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sistvntly d.-i..,nn...1 in, the tlicn Liberal opposi- [|.1ii. l1. 1.1._‘,i, u. ..u- l'i‘tI‘.iiiCLi at. least, it be- ..n...~ I..1.' o. 1.... inai..." .-~1.c~ 1.. tiic ltldtlfill elec- tion .....ip...~.|. l.;i.-.r..l eainlnlair- and their

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nrtory‘ uouid 1...»... n slllklllillldl reduction in 111 the lncoini- lax. the Salt-s Tax was

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'li1e .'\l(il.lli'..l‘itll'l‘l"§ .\*.'\(!Cl.'lll()ll is therefore on fir... ground 111 arguing for its reduction null .:‘.ii1....;...o.1 aliogelliei‘. An alterna- liae pr».;..~:il is il.:.. artitlis or materials used in thc iit.iiiiif.'tt".tilt' of taxable goods l)!‘ C-Xﬁllllll- e.l f...... llu- l.|~i\, “in avoid p_vi'ai.ii.lii.g."

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new (ltliiiillitli uhicl. were sull increasing, s0

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tliat it seemed “unlikely” the policy of 1925-30 in this regard would be readopted.

T00 bad this frank explanation didn't come from some responsible Liberal (iuarter in I035.’ \\'lia. a light in [lifOWS on the lurid misrcpres

entatiuns of our politicians then in Up- position! Au Old Liberal Custom

l. si-rins to be guicrally conceded that Mr. laniillici. lloudes eampxiign zigainst the King (iovcrnitit-iit on the zlrmaiuellt ipiesticn. in the

b. Henry Irv-election met with deserved defeat That. however, docs not absolve the Federal lliiiisters ivlio participated in the campaign from indulging i.i what the hlontreal Star calls “a spzitc of extrawigaiit promises and spetultlirii. pliantasies". “The iiltUllllfClil taxpay-er.” sav- ilie Star. "mus. have shiverctl as each nights frenziml luli-tlniiuping augi.it-uied and ‘made more deadly the pit-dyes to spcitd his (the tax- p:t_vr|">'l money" on any project which oceurriil 1o these campaigners as liltelv to please the vot- vr- of rnibattleil 5'. llenry. lt “as a godsend that iln- cainpaigi. was so short. nr there lip- pzircuilv uutild have been i... limit to the extent 1o uliiel. the public rrc.lit would have liccu ‘l...cl.c<l' to ftirnisl. fortli this sordid :..'.sei1al."

1 Editorial Notes 1

llei1i'_v ll;illan1 i_“lu lleiiioriaiii"), tlictl this Iliit‘. lhliﬂ- ' v >s s- *- >.< \\'.-t'l.l\. or .~\.-u. ininitlily inrtutliifg- of lit» l‘..-::r.l of 'l'ra.lc sliould stinnilan- ti... inn-res. of .

1l..~ 1|.c1..l1c1".-_ liu-rnal ilciice ..i. the part of business is the price of safety Illv-t‘ ilzrvs. \vi.l1 Liln-ral tjover...i1c1i.s in office lit-re and at O.- lil\\il. .- i- t >1=

l1. .\lttllli't'lll tin-y are not getting better very fast tioiivitli-taiidixlg there has been consider able reduction in police complaints. Nearly 75

THE CHARLOTTETPWN GUARDIAN

NUTES BY TllE WAY

52.0.10 tor sufferers of the Pansy outrage. Of course. 1t, is not. the poor Japanese civilians, or even the Japanese government, who are to blame. 1t is the dictator-tally- minded Japanese war lords over irnom they have no control.-

ln international aﬁsirs the only distinct on which counts is between rcspecters of the law and despisers of the sw between those who are ready to put their disputes to peaceful arbitration and those who mobilize their armies and start to kill, kill. kill. If the British people condemn the Governments of Italy sud Japan, it is not because of their political belcfs. Much ss we

miay dislike them and the excesses

they engender, they are internally a matter for the Italian and Jap- anese iveoples. It is because these two ooveriiments commit the crime of war. If the British peoples are torn with doubt "about the inten- tions of the German Government, it is because that Government consorts with war-makers mid cou- sisteutiy ridicules the ‘dea of a word ayslfill of law and peace.- London Daily Herald.

It ls all very well for us to grum- ble zuid prowl about the nay in which Confederation imposes ex- cessive burdens oi. our particular district. but before pushing these conflicting claims too far we should pause and consider what s disaster 1t would be if the Dom uton broke up into a number of squabbling groups. It is safe to say that. in that. event every problem we now have would become more pressing and innumerable new ones would arise. We would have greater duplication of services. pettier politics and a narrmvet‘ viewpolnt.—bondon Free Press.

The ears are faster. of course. and stronger, sleeker, easier. There is more room in them. with s surpris-

pct‘ ecu. of the. 14.838 complaints issued during 1113/’ were for offences against ariteles of tilt‘ t..-.....'....1 Code. ziccording t... the zinuual report roiiipilcil by Paul .\lont_v. Clerk of the [icacc for the judicial (listrict oi Montreal. Last year's total of complaints. .\lr. .\lonty"s statement re~ l vcals, was 7.014 lower than in 1936 and 9.075 under .935, when the record total of 23.91;, coniplziints were lodged. The decrease, in coin- l parison t0 i936, was principally due to the drop 1 i.i cases against disorderly houses. .~\u increase. however, was noted in major crime. there being more complaints during .937 for murder. arm- ed robbery; theft uitl. violence, theft and receiv- ing than in i936. while slight decreases were noted in complaints for atteiupted murder, bur- glary‘ and receiving stolen goods. - - >1. *

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Should Canada object to take iuiy part under any eirrumstziiiccs iu the defence 0f the (Jo...- inonwealtl. from foreign attack zigainst any par. of it, it would imply our witliilrzuval from the (Tnitnnonwcalth and mean that we must face .ilr)nc the dangers as well as assume the benc- iits, if any. of independence. It is contciuptible to accept the benefit of membership ir. the Com inonivcaltli and refuse .0 participate in any of its obligations. The Mother Country’ and the other Conmioutvealths would see us leave with much regret but they would not physically lift a little linger to prevent our leaving. Of course, if wc did leave we should forfeit the free entry to the British markets of our foodstuffs and raiv ma- terials which ivc now enjoy. and should have to accept the conditions imposed upon foreigners. That would cost us a vast deal more than would en-opcration within the Commonwealth in the provision of the means of the common defence.

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Canada's tariff of 50 cents a ton on Mnericnn aiitliarcitc coal cannot be removed until I940 without consent of the United Kiugtlom Gov- ernment. It was imposed originally in 1932K! give \\'clsl. miners a preference in the Canadian market. The American Antharcite Institute has informed a State Department agency. there was “no valid reason" why Canada should con- tinue tlic duty, considering .10 anthracite is mi..- ed in (Tauada, The duty was placed in the I032 Imperical Conference trade agreement and was included in the hound tariffs. those which Can- ada agreed to retain for the life of the treaty. l. was continued in the agreement negotiated :1 y-r-:.r ago. and thus will remain in force until i040 tutless Great Britain consents to its rc- mnval. The effect of the 5o-cent duty has been to increase \\'elsl. coal sliipmctits to Canada and lower American. The Anthracite tariff may for... the basis for representations by tlic United Ftatcs Government when a new trade treatv is being negotiated in the next few months. They might reach the point where Canada would male" submissions to tlic llritisl. Government for its consent to removal or cutting nf the rliuv. but Canada could not touch it without British co..- DOM.

o a n. 1k

"Strict adherence to facts has never been con- sidered an invariable characteristic of political eatupziigns iu this country," says hlziutreal Gazette. “Party leaders have not always couch- ed their appeals in terms of uueolored truth. and as we go furthcr down the scale we finrl that among the least responsible there is al- ivays tlic greatest latitude. Mr, llmidc, having no particular reason to be running in St. Henry. found himself somewhat handicapped at the out- set by reason of the fact that he had no apparent interest in the constituency, nor had it in him. The situation called for strong treatment, and Mr. lloude merely rose to the occasion. That what he has been uttering is utter nonsense mos. of the electors of St. Henry must now be fully aware, but. being liberally minded, and not he- ing inexperienced in the efforts of politicians t0 prrstime nvcrmuch upon their credulity, they will iii all probability shut the door on Mr. lloltdl‘ in tin- friendliest possible spirit, may even invite hi... tn conic up again sometime and sec them. lle is always interesting and is doing full credit to Alderman Bray and others who have been responsible for his presence and per~ formances. There is a passage in Proverbs which runs as fnilnivs: ‘Though thou shouhlest l)l'.'l_\' a fool in a mortar among wheat with a

l low.

iug economy of space, so that you can use them for moving vans just by opening the boot. The colour schemes are s little different. too, with every maker trying to bc I.

"little for himself. apparently, but.

also not. too far from the other fei- The price is just s wee bit up. And they still will not run themselves ,a.ud will yet; run as welt for the tooisb or reckless person as for tiim who remembers always that. they are dangerous machines. —_Vsueouver Province.

The Eucyelopaedia. Britannica has some 24 volumes in its latest; edition. The New York Public Library has 65 neighborhood branches. It is the policy of the library to shift. its ss- sistants around to diﬂerent. brimch- es in order to give variety i... their trailing. Recently a. ueivly-sbiftcd sssistant in an Esst Side brancn noticed that a volume of the Brit- tanics was missing from the shelves. This interested her because a voi- ume had recently been stolen from the branch in which she had been working. She called up another branch. Yes, they had had a vol- ume stolen. She called up twenty other branches. Sure enough. a.i of them reported a missing volume of the Britiaiiics, each volume s dif- ferent one. Someone had goine leis- urely from branch to branch until be had assembled s complete set!- Commentary.

The condition known as "tempor- ary insanity" is a hypothesis brought to the law by lawyers and is still without any general accept- ance by the medical profession. 1n criminal trials that involve charges of homicide it lends itself to obvious abuses. and even miscarriages of justices-Detroit. News.

At s meeting of Federated Women's Institutes in Toronto, Elizabeth Bailey Price o1 Vancouver, publicity secretary. urged members i0 "pay your pllbllClty debt. to newspapers that record your aguvi- ties 11v supplying live copy, sub- scribing to itie paper and buying goods advertised titerenh." Tnere can be no doubt; that Elizabeth Bailey Price is a woman of sound Judgment. concerning matters of which she spoke.—Renfreu' Mar- cury.

ljn this country we have gone on the assumption that if business gets bod in the United States it must gcp bad m Canada. It not necessarily an acurate assumption. During the past six mouths, for instance, the industrial charts in Canada, have been far from following industrial charts in the United States, There has been some slowing down in Canada. but it has been nothing in comparison with what has come scroqp the llI18.-—0Li.Il\\’8. Journal.

The French Socialists were sll for the yPopuiar Front so long as they led 2t. Al. that time the Radical Socialists did not think it: so hot; but in due course they managed to manoeuvre their M. Chautemps into the Socialist M. Bium’s place and then 1t was a‘! right for them. How- ever at this time the Socialists felt the chill and have wormed them- selves up by pulling M, o.“ ‘ r down. somehow one suspects that the Fascists are exaggerating when they point to the Popular Front as a dangerously strong coalition.- Exchange.

There are problems enough before the Wm- Oﬁice to demand all. sna m-ire than all, the virtues that its staff can offer the country: the bringing of the Army as nea-r as possible to the life of the citizen, from which it has always been too much cut. oﬂ—and this is certainly one of the War Secretary's most admirable atms,—resrmsment. the future tasks of the British Army in different quarters of the world, and the great question of the part which it should. and should not, play were this country ever, unhappily, to be involved in another Continental War. Mr Hora-Be lshs has, as they ssy, his n-ork cut out. The history of the Great War in many ways will not. help him. But that wsr. like all the other wars only more so, teaches s permanent lesson to Ber- vices and civilians alike‘. that the road to salvation lies through the vigorous. open mind that in peace

pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from hinf."

as in wnr should be encouraged. — Manchester Guardian

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mi. STANLl-JYQ APPEAL

Sir,-I have read Dr. Stanley's letter in your issue of darn. l}. fwd I am fully in accord with his sen- timents. I know also that, in some colleges and imiveisities there 1S a tendency to ignore or disdain the culture and teaming of the past, through ignorance of that Past P1115 s slight tincttuc o1 self conceit I quite agree that this 1S a tendency that should be firmly opposed-

Ail this being conceded. ivhat has it. to do will. our educational troubles in this province? Are you aware that our rural schools are yearlvturuiui; out crowds of ch11- drcn who will never sec the lﬂslﬁi‘ of a college or n _uuiver5 TY 3W1 who have no education, either prac- tical or cultural. in one SllEhlPBL degree worthy of the name? Arc you seriously maintaimng that the system which forces these. pupils to dabble for two years in Lawt- Frencli. Geometry uucl Altfclifll (of which they forget. practically every iota before they are six mouths our of school) is helping the cause of l1 gliei" cducaiinn, and linking them up with “the languages, ‘literatures, philosophies and instituticns of nu- cient Greece and Rome?

I pcrsotznlly know young people who have gone to school till almvst their eighteenth year, and who: caticiot trike a. book like “BeirHur out of the library and rend 1i be‘ cause “there are too many Pam words lit it". So much for Ben Hur!“ What price Milton. Shake- speare, Dickens Tennyson and others, the pride and glory of Englsh literature. and the birth- right of every child born uridcr the British flag.

Is it tiothiug, Sir, that the Car- negie Commission spoke of Otll‘ f5?"- cntlonal system in terms of bitm?! contempt. and iuuted that. its blighting influence could be traced ‘n the character of the people. or that the lute Dr. Robertson said 1n his last address that education lin this province needed to be over- hauled from bottom to to?!

1 have no authority to speak for the .adies and gentlemen who are working 1'0.- a, long over-due re- form in our schools. but 1 I681 001l- fideiu that they are no more the enemies of higher education than 1 am. We are not opposed to the teaching of the classics or higher mathematics-tar from 1t. but We know that. those subjects cannot be taught in the average upgraded school without serious injustice to the younger pupils and to the or- dinary school subjects. It is a physical impossibility for one thing. We only ask that. they be postponed till the student. enters college where, under competent. teachers,‘ and in suitable environment, the child who has the ability arid 0p- porturuty to enter the field of higher education will, in six months of interested, concentrated study. overtake and outstrip his companion who has put in two years of iinlf-tieartcd (‘isivdling over them in his home school, wth the consequent injury to his foun- dation studies.

1 am. Sir, etc» ‘ A. Mcli. St. Peters. P. E. I.

UNIVERSITIES 8r EDUCATION.

Sir.—-Our university are growing panicky “alarming” neglect of Latin and Greek. as indicated by s long let- ter in tihe public press from the President of Dalhouste. who cites the support of others in the Mar- time, American and British insti- tutions. It has “warnings” of “deplorable results" and ends with a wail over “s lost world" unless our students learn to wag their tongues like Sophocles and Caesar.

During this past century of un- paralleled advanee in economic productive camctty, church. college and state have proved bankrupt in cultural ideals and social intelli- gence. Our sins are visited on the good common folk whose grilled shoulders and bent backs support the superstructure of society. The universities seem ‘most guilty. for they dominate the entire educat- ions! system. This is done partly through the entrance exams, for which the high-schools must pre- pare their pllplLs, and partly by furnishing their teaching staffs. These high-schools again dctenn. ine the earlier training by provid- ing the elementary school teach- ers. Thus the IOng arm of the universities reaches (I-nvn to the remotes. backwoods $.11

Further their graduates occupy

presidents over the

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UNDERSTANDING

The fears and shadows of so many tves. Were they but faced with calm ser-

Y. Praying for vision clear, of seeing

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Measuring all things with life's im- mensity,

And ever searching, reaching out for love,

Which lies stung the very paths we tr

Discerning which, should we no longer rove

But choose the sweet companion- ship of God.

So should life's work be faced with happy hearts

Content in knowing that the Mas- ter's hand

Is guiding all. easing the tangled parts

111st sccm to ever hide the golden strand

0f faith that weaves for all such happiness.

And love secure in quiet hopeful- ness.

—He1en Kelly,

In "Chlﬂil Iiqrlu of w"

positions of inﬂuence in every sig- nifiennt. sud commanding situation with power over social srranBB- merits. Dsrge battalions of then. annually Join with the industrial msgnstes (who are ever more eager and expert in robbing than enriching the public) and become their serviie and eﬂtclent assist-

ants in acquisltive and competit- '

ive enterprise-with the inevitable lieu... of tichtenins the noose =- bout; their brothers’ necks. The universities have consented and conformed to the mercenary phil- osophy of the dominant and dom- ineering industrialist, with scarce- ly a ‘whisper of protest.

The letter speaks of "the clutter ,of alleged social studies," but is ‘silent about the worse clutter of laiicgecl classical studies. These and the higher mathematics 1m- pcsed by the university on the high schools occupy full half the pupil's time in school and home, ,crowding out the truly cultural istudies which would otherwise be ‘available for the average citizen in

his native tongue. He is denied ‘his only chance to develop the a- .bi1tty to read easily and speedily lWllll discrimination and delight and thus gain access to the ac- lcumulnted cultural treasures of the l ages. . Why the clutter? When the fnncient classics became the sub- stance of the medieval curriculum there were uo tools for mental dis- ‘el_.i:.e cemprinble to the Greco- Jioman literature. When our bar- ; barian ancestors imbibed that. cut- tture and produced a literature, .philosophy and science equal in most respects to its parent culture. and much more readily available, [being in their own tongue. there was no need then for more than the occasional specialist in that study whose researches would be mediated to society at large. In- stead of revising the curriculum in . accord with some organic unifying principle, boLh have been contin- ued. Hence the antiquarian clut- ter, Had the educational author- ;itlcs taken this course there is n0 reason why even the vast major- ity of the honest; hardworking folk mieiit not today be enjoying a real siinre in the material comforts, .thc social dignities and csthetic ldciights which is their just due. And ivhnt about the submerged masses rotting in the iu spcakable ,warrcns of our city slums within stone's tbiow of the stately piles which house the modem univers- ity Here is a real case for _"de- pioring."

The letter fears the cutting of “the warp-threads that reach back to Greece and Rome". Why not. therefore, take the further logical step and study the Aryan Sanscrtt, the Babylonian cuneiform and the Egyptian hieroglyphic representing civilizations that were ripe when the founders of Athens and Rome we.‘ still wandering barbarians of the stone age. who had to go to school to these earlier mces. More- over we need woof-yarns quite ss well if we are to weave a worthy fabric to clothe the citizens of the present age.-—the vsst psuperized multitudes of working folk.

In a long quotation from Presi- dent Butler of Columbia (N. Y.) there is a reverential mention of "that splendid term, the humanit- tesfas a gift from Greec and Rome. The sorry fact is that in the heyday of classical education in the universities of Britain, the most brutal inhumanity ﬂourished. ﬁrst the slave-trade in which British inﬂuence was dominant, In 100 years. three million slaves were carried to the European cot- onies in America in British ships. A‘ goodly part of the foundations 0t British wealth was fashioned out of this inhuman traffic 1n lives. Soon followed the indus- trial revolution when British mas- ters treated their own ﬂesh and b1ood._British laborers, in British factories. under British rule. with a devilish cruelty almost equal to that of the African Blacks in the colonies. The very classes that are illppﬂsed to beneﬁt by studying

the humanities" were responsible for such inhumanitles either as promoting or permitting them, t; U103’ did not ‘manage the factories —be1ns we digniﬁed for such v...- Qar itidustry-they invested money l" lltem. and prevented public Fﬁtrtiiation of them when they hsd exclusive control of parliamentary representation. so much for me humanities of these tragic dgyg!

Will our university president; K110i the educational authorities in their cloistered comfort and cu._ ture. think n bit more seriously of the privntions of the common Dimple unable to reach these cen- {res of learning. and devise 3 wny to share with them something better than the scraps of learning all“ the WE-ends of culture now doied out to them?

I sm, Sir, etc. J. W. A. NICHOLSON Ilia Bedequie, 11,111,

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Sin-I was greatly interested in the letter you published from Dr. Stanley of Daiiiousie in which he quoted the remarks oif another famous educsttonniist-Dr. Butler 0f Columbia. Because of my own predilection... the remarks; of those outstanding men on the impor- lﬂlwe 0f the Latin and Greek lan- guages pleased me not s little. Anyone who hss reached the stage in his study of those tongues which enables him to road them with some facility has always found them helpful in mental dis- cipline and s valuable asset toward the fuller appreciation 0.! the Ens- llsh language. A knowledge of them, too. will enable one to oon- fute without any difficulty, the arguments of those sincere, but misguided persons. who, for some unknown reason. would have us believe Christ did not turn wine into an intoxicating drink.

Unfortunately for my unanimity of opinion with those eminent gentlemen. they attribute in. im- portance to the knowledge of Lst- in and Greek which I cannot con- cede, 'I'here should br- no need for

ment with fear and trembling. I realize my dissent may avail Ul-

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erant or. worse still, even supercil- ious smiles from some of my resd- ers, but I have no other recourse. for. even in the faoc of ridicule, I dare not desert my own judgment when I feel the facts support it. However. I am satisfied to let the reader decide as to the virtudof my argument.

When Dr. Butler says that “what Plato saw and what Aristotle taught was done for ail time". he is making s statement which sounds incredible in my ears and causes me almost to doubt the truth of my eyes as they read Dr. Stanley's letter. And when the President of Dslhousie gives his blessing to the Columbia man's dictum by saying “all this is pro- foundly true‘ he is only repeating the religious zealots "Amen, brother!" "All this" is not pro- foundly true; rat-her is it profound- ly false. The Platonistg (including Plato himself) and the Peripatctics tinciuding Aristotle himself) were wonderful men and well for us if we knew just what combination of genes and chrom- osomes was necessary to produce such intellectual giants. At the same time among the grain of their teachings there was a, con- siderable amount of chaff and old John Locke's scathing denuncia- tion of Plato's universots still makes interesting reading. As for Arts- totle. his infallibiiity Ls too delicate s subject upon which to comment in a newspaper. and I shall only remark that his law of the velocity of falling bodies was accepted for two thousand years or so, until Galileo climbed the winding stairs of the leaning tower of Pisa and knocked it into s cooked hat.

‘These statements are not made for the sake of “starting argu- ment." nor are they made to be. little. in the words of Poe, “tile Krestness that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome". I. too. recognize that through a knew- ledge of Latin and Greek we arrive at the source of oirr literature, our science (if it is a science) of gov- erninent. and our piiiitmraohy. I‘ know. too. that while Darwin “as the illustrious fatiher of modern anthropology, the first great an- thropologist. was Aristotle and that he coined the word. But what I propose to try to show is that there are. today-Winn important subjects for the youth of America to concentrate upon than the study of either Latin or Greek. which menus that. there are more important subjects for the univer- sities to teach if the world is in be dragged bﬂCk from the edge of the precipice WPOD which it is even now tottering. .

Beyond pinning myself down to the task of specifying those ills, the

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remedying of which w-iil remove us from the precipice. I wish to say that, until they are corrected. education is net-her Sufldblt‘ fcr nor ssslm-ilsble by nggiss humanity, He is of more than ordinary in- telligence and character who fol- lows virtue for its own reward. and. today, in order to induce our sversgg citizen not to kick over the traces and thereby make life pre- carious for the rest of us, it is necessary not, only to promise him Heaven when he dies but to assure him he may have a golden ha... upon which to play. If he chances to have "no ear for music" the implication is skillfully made that through some process of transito- stantiation he will become another Mozart or Beethoven. In spite or s11 the certain and definite know- ledge possessed by modern sn- thropologists and evolutionists, the msss of the people still accept without quastion the cosmic chron- ology of a. dead and forgotten Eng- lish bishop who placed the world's creation at six thousand years ago. Yet most people have, st some

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