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2 Lost, Thesis “Recovec ( SOMME.
“Lost—One box, 3 ft. long, 18 in.
high, containing books and papers im-:
pdssible to replace on Thesis for Ph.D.
degree belonging to Miss Belle Boone
Beard. Box is supposed to have
reached Radnor Hall last June and not
seen since.”



statistical resear~)yq. from Pearson and “determine the
his school, and ‘from laws discovered by
Mendel. All’ this weakens the stoic
Christian religion of democratic brother-
hood. . However,. the triumph of the
democratic idea is the triumph of the
stoic Christian strain of thought.
~/On the other side, is Jeremy Bentham’s
legal reformation, based on the humani-
tarian idea of ‘greatest happiness for
she. greatest number’; and secondly’ the
‘religion of humanitarianism, or posi-
tivism. They have been repudiated as
intellectual theory, but as practical: work-
ing doctrines they dominate the world.
“Religion has, held up the ‘ideal figure
of man to Western E turope for two thou-
sand years—the idea of supreme man;

“Each. of oe types involves internal | not
perplexities. A possible solutior® i is to
hold each type of idea in its own sphere
of controversy. For example, the belief
that religion and science can never clash
bec: use dealing with different topics, is
entirely mistaken. You cannot.tear apart
minds and bodies in this world. It is
fatal to oscillate ,between things which
endure and things that occur and recur.
Phe Utilitarian doctrine of the greatest
happiness, for the greatest number evi-
dently has meaning. Happiness is re-
curreft differentiation into grades of in-
tensity, so that one occurrence is more
intense than another in point of happi-
ness. It -is necessary to attain some
clarity in metaphysical notions respecting

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one of the graduate candidates for a
Ph.D; this year has been looking fran-
‘tically for a large box of the above
description. The authorities were told
of its disappearance and a systematie
search has been made through all the
store rooms of each of the halls. Maids
and porters have . been .questioned.
Finally as a last resort the above sign

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' yeposing all these

the“ insufficiency. of life. _

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_was” posted on all bulletin boards on

the campus. A girl-in Radnor saw the
sign, and immediately thought of a
box that had been crowding her closet
space ever since the first day of school,
but which, had been so heavy that she
had never’ moved it. “Supposing it to
be college property she-had paid no
further attention to it.

The box proved to be-the one be-
longing to Miss Beard. It had been
nthssin Radnor

Hall, entirely sbiiouiret the concern

it had caused.



WHITEHEAD
Continued from Page Three

of private judgment, private property,
competition of private traders. Nations
arose, and men thought. of. nations. in
terms of international competition. They
examined the ‘theory of trade. Thus the
masses of mankind were competing for
What the no-
tion of harmony was to Plato, the notion
of competition was. to the nineteenth cen-
tury. :
__‘Now_it_is quite obvious,” continued Dr,
Whitehead, “that a much-needed correc-
tive to an unqualified humanitarianism is
already being supplied.
a fact in the world as harmony. There
have been many interpretations of spe-
cial aspects of European society in terms
of strife: Machiavelli, Francis I, Henry
V, Queen Elizabeth. Their popularity
thus.indicates._ further strife.

“In the hands of theologians, both in the
middle ages. and in this first period of
-the Platonic Christianity

Mystic religion is mostly-a Buddhism:
despair of this world and mystic tran-
quillity.- Christianity has wavered be-
tween Buddhistic mysticism and its own
impractical ideas, and that one will cof-
quer which can render something tan-
gible and useful in the passage of /the
temporal . world.
~ “There was an attempt to reconcile in
their conflict individual competitive strife
and optimistic harmony, thus furnishing
emotional belief in the brotherhood of
man, while engaging in relentless com-
petition with all individual men. But
unfortunately while individualism was
gaining triumph after triumph in Europe
and America, the foundations of it were
receiving sljpck after shock. “The in-
dustrial revolution, developed in Eng-
land under the treatment of economic
liberalism, did not work well.
of social relations or of individualism
were riot working well with tfew indus-
trial conditions. During the decade of
the 1840s and=since, in England and
Europe a_ series of remedial industrial
measures went into use. . Politically there
developed a competition between the pure
Liberals and the modified? Liberals.
From 1830. on, English Liberalism was
decaying because its system lacked prac-
tical ideas. Before the middle of the
century a whole new movement of so-
cial co-ordination arose in the form of
governmental industrial measures. — The
industrial system was then -spreading to
Germany‘ where the. necessity for co-

ordination and the failure of free com-

petition were things taken for granted.
Marx invented the doctrine of class war;
learned economists are unanimous in say-
ing that he does not express a funda-
mental scientific doctrine that Ip: sound.
The success of his\book, then, can only
be accounted for by the magnitude of
evils questioned in the first phase of the
industrial revolution. The early Lib-
eral faith that, by a degree of benevo-
lent provincial, individualistic — compe-
tition and industrial activity and neces- |
‘sity, worked together for human ‘happi- |
ness, had broken-down. as.soon as it_was |
tried.

“The proper remedy is still a matter of
serious debate. Almost every solution
has been tried, but no one hold¢ now that
mere individualistic competition of itself
ad to 2 atisfactory system. Dar-

win's theories were a challenge to the







whole humanitarian movement.— Modern |
doctrines of heredity are gained from

Strife is as much|

Students |

thus it discredits metaphysics, and in so
doing produced a practical program of

“Liberalism itself is impracticable;
hence this universal benevolence: ‘The
greatest happiness t6 the greatest num-
her’ should be replaced by the humane
extinction of inferior beings. Hume
denies love of mankind merely as. such;
modern science gives a good explanation
why so much passiofi is required. Cer-
tainly this adequacy of ends does not
arise from any adequate clarity of the
point of view.

“Physical science ralciin by itself has
some difficulty with its own fundamental
ngtions. One can classify topics of physi-
cal science in these groups.

Ml. True and real things which endure.

2, True and real things which occur.

3. Abstract things which recur.

4. Laws of nature.

These four topics suggest a host of
puzzling questions, puzzling since Plato.
By tracing the history of three very dif-
ferent types. of thought we’ may arrive
somewhere

1. Platonic \religious ideas.

2. Individualistic competitive ideas of
commercial society.

._ 3. Ideas of physical science:

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endurances, recurrences, and what. oc-
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Laws equal the outcome of character
of behaving things. Should we. replace
the old idea of things conditioned by ex-
ternal law? We are now growing close
to the impractical’ ethics of Christianity.
Ideals, cherished in the souls of men,
enter into the character of their’ action.
Impractical ‘ideals are a program for
reform, and such a program is not to be
criticized by immediate ‘possibilities,
“Progress consists in modifying laws |
of nature. so that the responsible on earth Pi;
may conform to that society to be’ con-
ceived ideal by wisdom. .Plato cherished
the idea of ideal relations between men,
based on the concept of intrinsic possibili-
ties of human character. This ideal
allies itself with similar-notions gener-
ated by religion, which at times dies
down but ever recurs. It is criticized
and is also a critic. An idea is a proph-
ecy Of its own fulfilment.
. “When we examine the genéral world
of recurrent fact, we find its general
character pfactically inexplicablé in re-
spect to realization of its intrinsic value.





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