('The Rejection of Authority and the Reeson Why The following very interesting letter was. contributed to "The Times" on December 17, and is well worthy of reproduction here as being applicable as much to China us to India, with which country the epistle primarily deals:
To the Editor of the "Ties"
Sir—I ean_corfirm from my own experience all that Sir Theodore Morison has so well expressed. At} 'a time when I was trying to make Indian history a prominent subject in the University of Bombay, I was surprised to fied the late Mr. Gokhale in strong opposition. He told me that the history of his country im, because was "taken up by war."" This is in part true; but much more can be Tearned, and no country can wisely order the present if its past is ignored, As Sir T. Morison says, Indian history may inculcate "an excessive veneration for authority;" but it gives shining examples of heroism and self-sacrificing devotion.
I well knew the Into Syed Huscin Bilgrami. He stayed with me in India, and we had much correspon: dence, His great anxiety seemed to} be the rejection of authority by young Indians, which he ascribed to the system of education that we} initated and for a time controlled.
The world has moved far since the appearance of Mill's "Liberty," and some of the theories set forth in that classic work have evaporated. For a Western people it may have been enlightening; but it is totally unfit for Asiatics, whose best tra tions and characteristics it tends to undermine, The narrowly utilitarian, conception of education, which the famous minute of Macaulay cush ed, formed the basis of the system we applied throughout India, and we came to its. inadequacy! to meet the higher needs of the} Indian peoples too late. Hence; arises the "insurgent spirit" which vents. itself in challenging all auth-bod the lore of old India. leg contempt for the lessens em-
governing class inspired by Mill and by some of what Lord Morley called "our best books" would, if in uncontrolled power, whether in Indi or in China, quickly reduce an people to chacs. The tragedies which our system of education has brought to numberless humble homes belong to anot'ier story. am, ete, Dee. 15, 1926, In Paddington Green Children's Hospital, London, is a six-year-old boy who is suffering from mancinism, an extremely rare illness. Physically and mentally the child, Willie Cozens, is alm: but owing to 'a peculiarity in the development of the br hie writes backwards, beginning on the right side of the paper and writing all the letters the wrong: way round, While, whose case exciting great interest, is being care fully treated to see whether it is possible o re-educate him to normally.
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cong," Baron K, Okura, who is one of Japan's leading industria! magnates, is going to retire from his long business career, not to rest fas most ordinary merchants do when they pass the age of 70, but for the task of elevating the position of actors and actresses, which he con-Valders to be a helpful mission society. The Baron has travelled a. of and visited Europe on a number Jot occasions, and there he mat Napoleon If, who asked him "What entry Is Japan? There isn't such country the map," a quo which awakened in him a de to do his utmost in placing on the map. In this he has bee moat successful, for to-day he con trols several score of important commercial and industrial under: takings which have taken 1 part in the development of native country and helped to place it on the maj
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