Mr. Bovingdon on the Conflict between Natural and Assumed Impulses An audience of Shanghai's musi-artistic and social lights crowd. fed the large music and dining rooms of Dr. Fearn's residence, 30 Route Pichon, on Saturday afternoon, at the discussion-concert given by John. und Louise Bovingdon, assisted by Mr. R. V. Dent, under the auspices of the China Society of Science and Arts, Mr. Bovingdon, picturesquely tired in a soft green short kimono, ver a brief Greek tunic, first spoke informally to his audience on' energy, that explosive force at the centre' of "being, (he problem' of letting cosmic power flow through one and thus unite one with the source of power.
'Mr. Bovingdon said in the course fof his remarks that the greatest Waste of energy in the world was Jeaused by the conflict between ou= natural impulses and those we thought proper to assume, that' instead of rising out of a despond Jdent or mean mood, reflected in a ferouching attitude, into a radiant mood, manifested' in an upright posture, we simply arbitrarily' superimposed one mood over another: ind gave" the world the expression we thought it wished. This confit between the natural impalse and.the social impulse is responsible, was Mr. Bovingdon thought for the pathological fatigue, so symptomatic of Shanghai.
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