MISCARRIAGE OF WESTERN LIFE

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 8

MISCARRIAGE OF WESTERN LIFE

Tho first article in the "Hibbert Journal* for October is by the Solicitor-General' for Coylon, P. Kamauathan, C.M.G., and deals with' ''The Miscarriage of Life in; the West/' He says "The nervous restlessness ; : which ; characterises life in. Wesetrn cities is not thl . .true-progress or .sound civilisation; ■ : This is felt to so' by the.cultured few. in those very cities, who. 1 are . puzzled . and amazed-at- the 'up-to-date' 'craze, which is slowly but surely quenching the spirit; .and .so, ruining the most, valuable asset, alike. of tho individual and the nation. It is folly . ' to call, this' wide expansion of sensnousness' : and worldlineEs:. ah" Age "of Progress. Sages . declare that cities, getl filled ;^'ith"v'the. ruril : population when love of finery and amusement dominate the-minds of the people. The flight : .of: the peasaiitiy from-, agricultural holdings into towns; known already, to 'be too full of the unemployed and unemployable, is like the 1 rush of insects int<r a bonfire lit _iu a.trppical night, and affords positive proof that .tlio spread ofesensuous- ideals ; is .breaking upvery'foundations ? ( ®''sbciety;; - The- steady' : class.iiniadeeper depths -. of: worlfflnesspjrreligitfnjh'iind'iifrivdlity. ■ utterly'., inconsistent with true 7 progress": oi' .true ciyilisation^.hy. which is.meant-:-the ideai and practices which consciously-uplift a nation from the corruptions of sensuonsnesa . and unrighteousness to a higher plane of life, where. reverence for .the spirit and its ■' careful extrication from the mazes of wotfdli■ness are -.the.'.'chief? aims:.of human ■ endeavi our." v -.r^-- : v -