fe the Baitor of the "Nonru-Cimwa Dany News"
Sm—Let me os a university man thank you for your significant leader of this morning, "Too Much Know-Tedge," on the question of social con-[sequences of a certain technical invention or discovery which Professor M. Jead of London University thas considered. It is a question worth serious investigation and study aside from or in connection with the prob-Tem of peace. Any person who may endow a foundation for this study must be doing greater service to mankind than one who finances the work an a problem of technical invention or discovery.
'The idea which Professor Jead submits for the cure of our dilemma in question, as you comment, is unsound. And it is not a new id Even granted that it is desirable, it] cannot be applied. Obviously, the idea" of disarmament "does' not work;" the Pact of Paris—Kellogg-Briand Pact of Peace—does not work." How can anybody expect that this Professor Joad's particular Idea implying, even more effectuall International goodwill and ce-opera~ tion will work throughout the world?
To work at the question, in my' opinion, one must look back the record of mankind penetratingly, to see how, why and where the conquest of nature has been accomplished, I venture to assert that in the development of any nation on earth, Tittle has been done toward the cou-quest of man himself and with rare exceptions nationals have not been. spanks conscious of the fact that man is a part of nature in the universe. There fan be no denying, I venture to add also, that the science of man is still neglected (especially in the Far Cost) while that of nature is emphasized out of all proportion. Our Solution "does not lie in the path where the study of natural should be limited as Professor Jead proposes, but in the realm wher Study of social sciences must and can progress.
In this connection let me say that for a long time I have been wondering why Kant could not survive in Germany as a spirit and ideal in the development of civilization and culture. If he did, I sincerely believe, Germany would have been different from what.we fear, hear and see and there the adventure into the Fealm of social sciences should have been radiating. Kant has been and still, fo much less extent, is_influential outside Germany. Why, however, has he been falling far behind Nietzsche, for instance, as a factor of education and religion in.
J. Usanc Ly.
Shanghai, Sept. 2.
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