POLITICS FOR CHINESE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 759, 7 March 1910, Page 7

POLITICS FOR CHINESE.

BRITISH PROFESSOR ON HIS WOKK : . Iγ* PEivIN.

"Day by day llr. Kipling's prophecy as to Last and West loses .its force. Ever since the disastrous war with Japan China has set herself to assimilating .Western knowledge and ideas In liK ( ST' I"* noHT.. been'established at Pekin,.and two clairs in it Have been set apart .for British professorsIhat of political and economic science nas been conferred upon Mr H' C, F Fmlayson, of tho London School 'of Economics, who, unfortunately, had left -London tor Australia two days before the letter arrived.' .

Mr. Fmlayson is a young, eager Scotchman of twenty-five years. Ho took his Al-A. at Aberdeen (final honours in the Modern Language School), ho-studied at the Universities of Marburg,. Strasburg and Pans; he has since taken-a postgraduate courso, for two and a half years at the London School of Economics. I leave for Pekin by- the Trans-Si- ?? Na T? oute in autmt a fornight," said Mr. imlayson, to an English interviewer. Ihe work awaiting for me is of extreme 1 fascination. For eight years cultured young Uuaamen havo been instructed in graded schools, and have been taught to speak Jinglish, in preparation for the present stage of instruction. Substantially the university will be Chinese with a Chinese director and a staff of Chinese professors and the students, I understand, wear thoir national clothing. "My business is to teach them about the Constitutions and the economic theories of the West. I am to lecture on all the leading Western theories of Government from Plato and Aristotle down to John Stuart Mill and: the presenWay authorities.

"I am greatly interested in tire tremendous possibilities of the soliomo. Here is an old, old nation, a nation of cultured scholars, aspiring eagerly to know nil it can learn about tho doings of (mother civilisation which-it has hitherto ignored or despised! Wβ have Chinese students here in the London school, and I am vastly impressed by tlieu; intelligence and their gentle dignity. "Western' Socialism? Of course I shall toll thorn all about that. It is part of the economic history I am expected to teach."