The sun., 1916-11-26

tnoiese warns parents
against the dangers IN our puhlIc
school system. where the i~ndivtdualty
OF the child Is so often disturbed. 4,
not destroyed, by class teaching. MOT
psychology IL always false psychology
The crowd obliterates the ego. Yet "a
collective consciousness belongs ths
future. II y all very we'll for Mallook
to call wal the g~lorifcation, the result
ana the prop Of limited class interests
(This was years ago.) Stately, sedats
stable Ii the class that won't tolerate
war; class Of moral lollipops. War we
must have: II Is one Of the prime
conditions Of struggling existence. A
belief in some totem. fetch, taboo \,
the basis Of all superstitions, so Tho
superstition Of yesterday builds the
~cathedrals OF faith to-day. Read
Frazer's Golden Bough"-James
Frazer. who Ia the Darwin OF Social
Anthropoiosy. Happiness require,
limitations. a. a wine needs n glass to
hold Il; and II patriotism is a Grim.
Of lese majesty against mankind, then
be II %. But like the poor, war and
patriotism are precious essences in
the scheme OF life. and we shall al.
ways have them with us. However
the warning Of Miss Williams is a
timely one. At school our children,s
souls are clogged with bricks and NOR.
tar, instead OF being buoyant and
individual.
She quotes--and her little volume
contains a mosaic OF apt quotations
with evident appreciation from Some
NAIAI us..- H. a. =
the late II. NJ. Bernard. an English
thinker: Organic life is thus seen
advancing out Of the dim past upon a
series OF waves. each of which can I've
scanned In detail until we come 10
that m on which we ourselves. the
organisms Of to-day. and the human
societies to which We belong. are swept
onward. Here we must necessarily
pause. but can we doubt that the
great organic rhythm which has
brought life so far will carry II on
70 still greater heights in the unknown
~future?' Rhythm. measured flow. il
the shibboleth. 4 new mysticism is
p~reigured In the later writings ~
Nietzsche. whose influence on Rergson
and French philosophy has been pro.
'''st' ,eN NV 't' w -
Nietzsche set up by some III Informed
writer's who talk of the "blcnd beast"
as the ideal supcrman. Zarathustra
tells that man is a discord and hybrid
OF plant and ghost. "T teach YOU
Beyond-Man t%superman) Man is some
thing that will be surpassed
once man was ape. and is are in A
higher degree than any ape.
Man Is n rope connecting animal and
Beyond-M Man" Nietzsche did not be-
lieve in Darwin. His teachings are
spiritual. Believe that which thol
seest not" cries Flauhert I'm his mar
vellous masque of mythologies ancient
and modern. The Temptation of ~.
Anthony" Tertullian said the same
centuries before the F'renchman:
"Credo quia impossible est" We all
do. Perhaps 1t is the price We pay Tor
cognltion.
Miss Williams is not a Bergsonian,
though she appreciates his plastic
theories. She keeps n receptive mind
for new theories. Henri Berrsun
is a mystagogue. and all mysta-
gogues are mythomaniacs. He has
yet TO answer Professor Hugh :. Il,
Elliott's three questions: 81. -BerRson
says. Time Is a stun both res .siant
and substantial Where is the speci.
men or which this allegation Is
founded? .. Consciousness is 20 some
extent Independent OF cerebral strlt.
ture. Professor Bergson thinks he IL
disproving n crude theory OF loca,.Zl-
OF mental qualities. VIII he fUr-
nish evidence of its existence apart
from local structure? 3 Instinc' leads
us 10 a comprehension OF lie that In
tellec can never give. VIII Professor
Bergson furnish Instances of the Sue
ccsses of instinct in biological inpuir-
les where intellect has failed" ,F'rom
Modern Science ana the Illusions ~
Professor Bergson," 1879 These
metaphysical curiosities.' as tary
are rather contemptuously called by
Sir Ray Lancaster in his preface 70
this solid!y reasoned combination. arc
the pabulum Of numerous persons.
d~!lettantes, with a craving for an
embellished theory OF the Grand
Perhaps. Miss Williams is not the
dupe of such silken sophistrles. and
While her d~ivagations are sometimes
in the air-which, like the earth, hath
bubbles, as was observed hy the
greatest OF poets-she plants her feet
on tangible atirmations. And To- have
faith we must admit the Illatlyc sense
or John Henry Newman. Thus IN"
wheel is come full circle" "Crsa.ivc
lnvolution' Will please myst.cs an.
mathematicians alike. The author
somersaults in the vasty blue. hn,
safely volplanes to mother earth.
II Creative Involution" would have
impressed Heine. what vii, Mr.. XanG,
will say to "Sussex Gorse' by She'.t
kaye-Smith. who Ia as vigorously I'm.
personal. as objective as Miss W.
In her exposition OF a mast
passion? Neither Of these writers t''-
us much OF herself. except iDfD'.
entially. II We know that the Am,l,-
"A woman Is n mathematician duI.''i
by an idealist. then the EnslishAuu.'
twho Is surely "A Celt,) reveals To- u
an art that is both II pattern su." ,
picture. sussex Gorse" Is the story
OF n lEht. II is a pov orfui az
sombre fiction relieved here and i,r'
ny an illuminating ana trlehsy U'',
Gaelic 1t Is. vlriie, and Ia
the novelist empl y = A.
FAC device: she studies the ,,.
ment OF avarlce in a SUSSEX farm
an avarIce that Is neither tu uo,t ...
10 bind, II ls the ~hittcr-svr r. ..
land. The time elemcn; L.
trlvcd that we follow on To- t'.f &
of the mans life, over fuul
years, when he has Won Hl,
desire, and for which ln ma.