chapter 36
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We will clude with a quotation from " The Higher Education, " or the Book of Platitudes, as fners sider it. "The Gover of the Empire," it is said in that book, "should begin with the proper administration of the State; the administration of the State begins with the regulation of the family; the regulation of the family begins with the cultivation of the individual." This, then, is what we mean by ese Scholarship.This article on ese Scholarship was written and published in the "N.C. daily news" in Shanghai in .
APPENDIX
the religion OF mob-worship OR the war AND the way out
Frankreich s traurig Geschick, die Grosser! mogen s bedenken,
Aber bedenken fiirwahr sollen es Kleine nech mehr ;
Grossen gingen zu Grunde ; dock wer beschittze die Menge
Gegen die Mengef Da -war Menge der Meyrann.
Goethe
Professor Lowes Dison of Cambridge Uy in an eloquent passage of his article on "The War and the Way out," says: "The future (the future of civilisation in Europe, he means) ot be moulded to any purpose until the plain men and women, workers with their hands and workers with their brains in England and in Germany and in all tries get together and say to the people who have led them into this catastrophe and will lead them into such again and again, "No more! No more! And never again! you rulers, soldiers and diplomats, you whh the long agony of history have ducted the destinies of mankind and ducted them to hell, we do now repudiate you. Our labour and our blood have been at your disposal. They shall be so no more. You shall not make the peace as you have made the war. The Europe that shall e out of this war shall be our Europe. And it shall be one in whiother European
Dreadful is Frances misfortuhe Classes should truly bethink them,
But s?ill more of a truth, the Masses should lay it to heart. Classes were smashed up; well then, but who will proteow the Masses
Gainst the Masses? Against the Masses the Masses did rage.war shall be never possible. "
That is th<big>9９ｌib.</big>e dream of the socialists now in Europe. But such a dream, I am afraid, ever be realised. When the plain men and women in the tries of Europe get rid of the rulers, soldiers and diplomats and take into their own hands the question of pead war with another try, I am perfectly sure, before that very question is decided, there will be quarrels, broken heads and wars between the plain men and women themselves in every try. Take the case of the Irish question i Britain. The plain men and women in Ireland in trying to take into their own hands the question even of how to govern themselves were actually flying at each others throats and if this greater war had not e, would at this moment, be cutting each others throats.
Now in order to find a way out of this war, we must first of all, find out the in, the cause of this war; find out who was really responsible for this rof essor Dison would have us believe that it was the rulers, soldiers and diplomats who have led the plain men and women into this catastrophe,_into this hell of a war. But I think, I prove, that it was not the rulers, soldiers and diplomats who have led the plain men and women into this war, but it was the plain men and women who have driven and pushed the poor helpless rulers, soldiers and diplomats of Europe into this hell of a war.
Let us first take the case of the actual rulers, _the Emperors, Kings and Presidents of Republiow in Europe. Now it is an undisputed fact that with the exception perhaps of the Emperor of Germany, the actual rulers of the tries now at war have had no say whatever in the making of this war. In fact the actual rulers of Europe today. Emperors, Kings and Presidents, bound in hand and foot and gagged by the mouth as they all are by stitutions and Magna Chartas of Liberty, _these actual rulers have no say whatever in the gover or duct of public affairs in their tries. Poor King Gee of Great Britain, wheried to say something to prevent a civil war over the Irish question, eremptorily told by the plain men and women i Britain to hold his tongue and he ha藏书网d actually to apologise through his Prime Mio the plain men and women f to do his duty as a King to prevent a civil war! In fact, the actual rulers of Europe today have beere expensive oral figures as the figures on a seal with which Gover official dots are stamped. Thus being mere oral figures without any say or will of their own as far as the gover of their tries is ed, how it be said, that the actual rulers of Europe are responsible for this war?
Let us examihe soldiers whom Professor Dison and everybody now denounces for being responsible for this war. Ruskin in addressing the cadets at Woolwich, says: "The fatal er９9ｌｉb?ror of modern institutions is to take away the best blood and strength of the nation, all the soul substance of it, that is brave, and careless of reward and sful of pain and faithful in trust; and to cast that into steel and make a mere sword of it, taking away its void will; but to keep the worst part of the nation, whatever is cowardly, avaricious, sensual, and faithless, and to give to this the authority, to this the chief privilege where there is the least capacity of thought."The fulfilment of your vow for the defence of England, "Ruski on to say addressing the soldiers of Great Britain, "will by no means sist in carrying out such a system. You are no true soldiers if you only mean to stand at a shop door to protect shop boys who are cheating in-side. " Now Englishmen, and true English soldiers too, who denounce Militarism and Prussian Militarism,think, should read and ponder over these words of Ruskin. But what I want to say here is that it is evident from what Ruskin says here, that if the actual rulers in Europe have practically no say, the soldiers of Europe <bdi></bdi>today have absolutely no say _whatever in the gover and duct of affairs in their tries. What Tennyson says of the British soldiers at Balaclava, is true of the poor soldiers now in this war, "Theirs was not to reason why, theirs was but to do and die. " In fact if the acutal rulers in Europe today have beere expensive oral figures, the soldiers in Europe now have beere dangerous meical automatons. Being more meical automatons without any voice or will of their own as far as the gover of their tries is ed, how then it be said that the soldiers in Europe are responsible for this war?
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