To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cimxa Datty News"
Sm=—In yesterday's issue of the "North-China Daily News," I read with great interest Professor C. E. M. Joad's lecture upon "Science," through which Nature is revealing her secrets to man, and how all the wonderful discoveries which are made seem to be used for destruction. Why this should be, with a world so full of riches for man's comfort is most distressing, yet it is a fact upon looking round, we do see such dire poverty, not only of body, but of Take for example the wonderful soya bean of which there are about two thousand varieties, two hundred of which have teen " experimented with success in England, and of which more than sixty millions of the population of the Far East are sus tained, this bean having all the qualities for staple food, as well as for industry, yet men, women, and children go hungry, and live in fear of this, and fear of that. Surely the art fof distribution has not been learnt yet, for in every land and clime there is abundance for all, for everything is provided for us. "If man could Jonly see" what a pity it is that the [wonderful teachings of Aristotle were {ost for more than a thousand years, Jour thoughts toward mankind might Ihave been different.
The great Sage always taught "aht man know thyself."
J. Basser, Shanghai, Sept. 4.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.