Smith, x.80.
Having attempted to show that the new civilization was bound to come to China, and having sketched out what the writer believes to be an ideal method for the young Chinese to become acquainted with "Western learning," it is now proposed to return to a consideration of its probable results.
It may be an advantage to remind the reader that it was the article by Lord William Gasgoyne-Cecil in this journal, entitled The Perils of Western Civilization," which caused the writer to set forth the conclusions arrived at after some fifteen years of experience with students in British Universities.
The very title of Lord William's article suggests a certain nervousness as to the result of all this western learning in the Orient. That impression develops as the article is read and pondered over. The scient frequently accused of " Materialism" and even in the Far East the writer has heard grave warnings from the pulpit concerning this supposed tendency of our modern life, Indignation at an astounding lack of imagination among the teachers of Truth, gives way to a sorrow that they fail to recognize their most valuable allie It is really quite exasperating that, even in Britain, almost all of the most important, the most expensively educated people—all of our lawyers and legislators, our wealthy manufacturers and merchants, our schoolmasters and out clergymen—are all quite ignorant of physical science, We might almost say that in spite of these clever ignorant men, through the agency of men who are not ignorant, all the conditions of our daily life are being transformed.
Too often is science blamed for the evils of civilization produced (in the muddle caused by ignorance) by these clever ignorant people. They do not appreciate fully the priceless gifts which its great high priests such as Faraday and Matt, Pasteur and Kelvin, Hertz and Lister bestowed upon humanity. Our industrial slums, our extremes wealth and poverty, our huge armaments are due to the errors of politicians and the faults of people who exist in a world of whose physical laws they are en. ginal from
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