To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuiwa Dany News."
Sut,—A very pleasant controversy is developing in your columns which "P.DZ" has rendered a great service to hie country in initiating. the discussion in your columns and inviting your readers to join May Ihave a say? To my OF there is no need at all to decry country's civilization against other. 'Phe word civilization been ' defined as advancement knowledge, refinement, art and gress in general. To compare East with the West in order to. Drove one's superiority is a waste of time, for civilization does not belong to' any special class of nation or count Belongs to humanity country; it to justice, ly advanced: by the human family irrespective, Of religion, class or ereed. Civilization may advance a step further. Let me illustrate! If the ancient Israelites needed that the Deity should proclaim to them the law "Thou shalt not murder" by thunders and lightenings, civilization teaches the same rule by developing. the sense df justice. One may be atheist and yet his sense of Justice, which civilization taught, lim, will dictate to him the abhor-Fence of the crime of mud Tt i conceded that China is proud of an ancient civilization. It is not, ver, on record that every nation or country has kept pace at an astounding rate with its progress. Setbacks have been many, If we were to compare the East ith the West and vice versa, we Would find no end of flaws in each, 'The mediaeval ages in Europe, for example may be said to be' the darkest chapters that have been reded in the anna of our common civilization, would not The sword was the measure of the means of justice. The sword was taken into the temples of the gods, and upon it was invoked by the priests the blessing of all the warlike deities. That sword caused human blood to flow in rivers, seat tered human bodies over the earth as leaves fall in the forests in the autumn; it widowed women, orphaned children, destroyed homes, broke families asunder, mainly Because men lusted after the goods off others, That did not happen in the East but in the West. And yet I repeat that we have no right to measure the standard: of the civilization in the West because of the setbacks it had received in that age. repeat with all the emphasis at my command that civilization has no boundary; the moment you seck to designate it, it is no of vides human ds of just ice, one for the East and one for the West. "F.D.Z.
China to-day is backward in many respects, but that does not mean that the contributions made in the past must be belittled True, the West to-day is in a position to point to great strides in science, art and culture, but this should not eclipse the sun that shone brilliantly in the East. To the East we owe the Bible, the best, the noblest and the sublimest contributions ever made to civilization, Moreover, the East has given birth to three great religions, namely, Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism,. Is that not enough to impel us to weld the East and the West together as a homogeneous whole? For while it is true, as England's bard has sang, "All's well that ends well" it may also be true that that will end well that is well begun, Tam, ete, Moron,
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