the Editor of NontH-CHINA Dairy News."
Sir—Three-fourths of the super-ices of this planet consists of sea scape. Since man appeared upon it, much more than that proportion jof itz history is manscape, fitful \deeps of the regnant human, mind mind, always moving in mighty cur. rents, often lashed into typhoon ness by its racial and inter-racial problems and the psychical fevers lof its stubborn social diseases.
The typhoons, as in nature, express the conflict of two or more treads, Rut. these human typhoons and trends are sentiment first, and psychical afterwards. 'The tron ise in the psychic region of am! tion, either of a party or a nation, jor in the complemental antitoxins of fear and the instinct of defence in opposing bodies or g-cups; but, un less the strife of these primal' and complemental trends be composed some other trend of sedative qual ty, they inevitably become psye ical, and hurl men and nations against each other in civil or interracial war.
But the psychi 1 genesis of the trend nearly always finds birth in ithe mind of one man; a single virile conception arising in the endowed prescience of some natural leader, which can be cither beneficent or jmaleficent to his fellows. And the alternative as to which of these characters it. will assume depends mot upon the genius, but upon the moral orientation and spiritual Iworth of the originating mind. Wit jour genius, such a mind could not. emerge from the common mass, eithjer for goad or evil. But without, moral character and spiritual ballast, ts emergence can only awake conflicts spectacular indeed and po haps vast, yet "9 fruitless and unredemptive in their effects upon human life that the emergence itself be a calamity, Genius divorced character has in fact produced most of the multi-complexioned ts~ rants ard monsters under whom the rac hat ever groaned. And [Chinese conception that bad ral Jare ax inevitable a part of the ce-Jonomy of nature as typhoons, earthquakes ard tigers ix seen to'illumi-Me the historical philosophy not only. jof China, but of universal man,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.