THE LAW OF CIVILISATION AND DECAY.

Evening Star, Issue 12875, 26 July 1906, Page 7

THE LAW OF CIVILISATION AND DECAY.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir,—’The articles on “ cram ” which have appeared in your columns of late offer much food for reflection. Coming at a time when the atmosphere is permeated with great changes hr eveiy department of life, not only in. the material world, when we are on the eve of the wireless transmission of power; in the spiritual world, when Drummond s dream of .the -real Christ is dawning on the race; in the physical world, whim the influence of food on the health, the refinement, and politeness (Mr Wilson kindly note), and on the power of resistance to disease, as instanced by the world’s record small sickness and death-rate among the Japanese during the recent war. ‘ To anyone who is not handicapped by the much learning that makes him mad it is perfectly clear that the future lies with the physically and mentally healthy. Does this colony present those forces that make for national and individual vitality? At no time in the world’s history are such titanic forces on the eve of birth throes than at the present moment. Look at the United States, with its ten million colored people, who are increasing at a ratio pregnant Vvith disaster to the existence of the dominance of the white; Germany, with its seething-over population, waiting for a military Herr Bebel to crush the present military despotism; Austro-Hungary, waiting for its revolutionary tocsin to sound as the , death of its Emperor ushers in the up-