Bellona Times
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Our student, however, may wish to pursue the study of ceramics further, and will be told that he must cross the road and look for Chinese, Japanese, and Persian ceramics in the main collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, bearing always in mind
that an important section of national property in the case of oriental ceramics is to be found in the british museum if he wishes to study embroidery he must hunt for oriental examples other than indian in yet another department if he wishes to study architecture and the plastic arts
it will be difficult to instruct him exactly what to do and he may run some risk of being recommended just as doctors recommend a long sea voyage to a tiresome patient to try the imperial institute and the bethnal green museum if it be once recognized that the arts of the far east have been and are still being evolved
Out of a continuous progression of human thought and intellectual expression, derived more directly from primitive civilizations than the arts of the West, and rarely influenced at any time by these Western arts with advantage to either side, it will be understood how necessary it must be to have a museum of Oriental art alone, in direct connection with an institute for Oriental studies.
if it be also recognized that all our own traditions of religion our very race history the foundations of our european languages are traceable by common acceptance and in many cases by actual proof to an asiatic source we should feel conscious of a greater debt to asiatic intelligence than we have ever even attempted to pay
there is no need for controversy no need for antagonism between christianity on the one hand and islam buddhism and hinduism on the other between the canons and ideals of western art as derived from the pure intellectual atmosphere of hellas and the more turbid streams of art in persia india or china
The establishment of a National School of Oriental Studies, with a great museum of Oriental art attached to it, would be proof not only of the importance of the position of the British Empire as an Oriental power, but of that simple blending of this power with human sympathy and goodwill, which was lately symbolized by the figure of the King-Emperor in person on his throne at Delhi.
End of A Museum of Oriental Art by Lionel Gust An Analogy from New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams Read by Bologna Times This is a LibriVox recording.
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an analogy in every large city throughout the world thousands of women are so set aside as outcasts from decent society that it is considered an impropriety to speak the very word which designates them lecky calls this type of woman the most mournful and the most awful figure in history
he says that she remains while creeds and civilizations rise and fall and the eternal sacrifice of humanity blasted for the sins of the people but evils so old that they are imbedded in man's earliest history
have been known to sway before an enlightened public opinion and in the end to give way to a growing conscience which regards them first as a moral affront and at length as an utter impossibility
Thus the generation just before us, our own fathers, uprooted the enormous opus of slavery, the tree that was literally as old as the race of man.
Although slavery doubtless had its beginnings in the captives of man's earliest warfare, even as this existing evil thus originated,
those of us who think we discern the beginnings of a new conscience in regard to this twin of slavery as old and outrageous as slavery itself and even more persistent find a possible analogy between certain civic philanthropic and educational efforts directed against the very existence of this social evil and similar organized efforts which preceded the overthrow of slavery in america
thus long before slavery was finally declared illegal there were international regulations of its traffic state and federal legislation concerning its extension and many extra-legal attempts to control its abuses
quite as we have the international regulations concerning the white slave traffic the state and interstate legislation for its repression and an extralegal power in connection with it so universally given to the municipal police that the possession of this power has become one of the great sources of corruption in every american city
before society was ready to proceed against the institution of slavery as such groups of men and women by means of the underground railroad cherished and educated individual slaves it is scarcely necessary to point out the similarity to the rescue homes and preventive associations which every great city contains
It is always easy to overwork an analogy, and yet the economist who, for years, insisted that slave labor, continually and arbitrarily, limited the wages of free labor, and was therefore a detriment to national wealth, was a forerunner of the economist of today, who points out the economic basis of the social evil, the connection between low wages and despair, between over-fatigue and the demand for reckless pleasure.
before the american nation agreed to regard slavery as unjustifiable from the standpoint of public morality an army of reformers lecturers and writers set forth its enormity in a never-ceasing flow of invective of appeal and of betrayal concerning the human cruelty to which the system lent itself we can discern the scouts and outposts of a similar army advancing against this existing evil
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