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A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF ALL TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Vol. XX.

EDITED BY MR. G. A. NATESAN.

APRIL, 1919

A LESSON FROM CHINA

BY

THE HON. JUSTICE SIR JOHN WOODROFFE.

OR a long time past I have not come across a book of its kind which has so pleased me as Mr. A. E. Grantham's recently published volume called "Pencil Speakings from Peking." Though it treats of China, there is much in it which bears upon the question of what young India should, and what modern Europe should not, be or do. It contains much wisdom and displays fully that passion for beauty which is a marked trace of the best European minds.

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to observe the lack of interest in the beauty of
nature, or the incapacity to appreciate it. Those
who are hungry and anxious have good excuse,
but not all are that. There is no true culture
where beauty is not seen.
The universe is a
veritable Song whose sounds (Shabda) and har-
monies (Chhandah) are greater than any other
music.

Has not India also been sustained until to-day
by the spiritual character of Her civilisation ?
In China, reverence externally elaborated itself
in the observance of forms and ceremonies which
the ordinary western and his eastern imitator
think unnecessary. A vulgar temperament, and
a commercial 66
race against time," are hostile to
the mannered leisure of the past.
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The author
truly says:

The Chinese sages spoke of the three spheres of Heaven, Earth, and Man; of spiritual influences, of material objects, of the self and social relationships. The official name of Peking is Shun T'ien Fu or Obedient to Heaven." How fine is the mentality which the choice of such title indicates! It is by obedience to Heaven that the state prospers. The Chinese selected neither politics, military glory, trade nor other appeal to pride, greed, or vanity but obedience to Heaven-to the Tao-submission to the principles of reason and righteousness as the standard of their lives. This has been, says Mr. Grantham, the secret of their amazing vitality. Equal sacredness is attached to all three worlds and equal reverence is enjoined towards them. The western mind in its periods of superficiality has marked off the divine from the profane. The east sees the divine in all. Moreover, the Chinese are an artistic and emotional people swayed by delight in poetry and natural beauty, It is depressing in this country

"The twentieth-century Chinaman who gives up his traditional regard for ceremoniousness loses far more than the outer show of a superficial politeness; the mainstay of his self-discipline is shaken. And perhaps it is not only the Oriental who degenerates into quite a despicable type of being when he discards the strait-jacket of traditional manners: for the Western counterpart of K'ung-fu-tsze's princely man, the English gentleman, is likewise moulded far more effectually by devotion to form than by fear of punishment in a future world, in which, for practical purposes, he only takes the most tepid interest."

The ancient Chinese sought guidance in the Divine Way, the manifest Tao creating and maintaining life. They saw holiness in Heaven

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