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albumen produced a sediment also in the body albu- 

 men of nearly-related animals, and having by this 

 means pro\ed the relationship bersveen horse and 

 ass, pig and wild pig, dog and fox, it occurred to 

 him that from the point of view of natural science 

 nothing was of greater interest than proof of the 

 blood-relationship between man and ape. He and 

 an English investigator found that rabbit seruni 

 treated with human blood, added to thirty-four kinds 

 of human blood, always produces a strong sedi- 

 ment ; and that the same serum mixed with eight 

 kinds of anthropoid ape's blood (ourang-outang, 

 gorilla, chimpanzee) produced in all the eight cases 

 a sediment almost as strong as in human blood. 

 Therefore : — 



As it is an established fact that the serum of a rabbit 

 treated with hnman blood produces a sediment, not only in 

 human blood, but also in ape's blood, but in no other 

 kind of blood whatever, this is for even,- scientifically- 

 thinking investigator an absolutely sure proof of the 

 blood-retationship between mau and apes. 



Although the conclusion is not to be drawn from these 

 investigations that man is descended from the anthropoid 

 apes with whicli we are to-day acquainted, a blood-relation- 

 ship between man and the apes is certainly proved. 



The doctrine of evolution, as propounded "and elaborated 

 by such investigators as Lamarck, Darwin, and Haeckel 

 thus finds a firm and visible support in biological seriun 

 research. 



THE CHINESE QUESTION. 



By Arthur Lytteltox and Sir W. des Vceux. 



Mr. Arthur Lyttelton, writing on the Government 

 and South Africa in the Kaiiona! Rcviav for April, 

 says : — 



Though great injury has already beeu doue, if courage 

 has not altogether forsaken the Government there is hope 

 that irreparable mischief may yet be averted. For the 

 veto is not meant to be employed. Ihe free passage home 

 offered to the Chinese will remove the last shred of argu- 

 ment that the Chinese are not working voluntarily and 

 aa free aeents in South Africa. The repeal of the Ordin- 

 ance of 1904. and of the sappleinentarj- Ordinance of 1905. 

 so that the responsible government of the Transvaal may 

 have a clean slate for subsequent legislation, is again of 

 no consequence. To re-enact the provision of those instru- 

 ments will be an easy task, and the position of the 

 Transvaal legislature in so doing, after they have been 

 amended nud the Ordinance carried on for many months hy His 

 Majesty's Government, is impregnable. 



He maintains that to interfere with the Chinese 

 labour question, even by the use of the Imperial 

 veto, must bring disaster on the Government and the 

 country. 



On this point Mr. Lyttelton finds himself at 

 variance wnth Sir W. des Voeux, a Colonial Governor 

 who has had a great deal of experience in dealing 

 with the Chinese. In his article, '' A Justification,"" 

 in the yincieenih Century, Sir William says : — 



I hold most strongly that wlien responsible government 

 is granted to the Transvaal the control of the Chinese 

 labour svstem should be retained entirely in the hands 

 of the Imperial Government. On the whole, though, know- 

 ing the possibility of abuse when supervision is lax and 

 administration weak. I am by no means enamoured of the 

 indentured system. I am yet fully convinced tliat for the 

 continued working of the Transvaal mines a similar sys- 

 tem, applied either to Chinese or natives, will prove, if it 

 has not already proved, absolutely necessary. 



BLACKWOOD IN HYSTERICS. 



The advent of the Labour members has com- 

 pletely upset the nervous system of Maga. In spite 

 of Mr Balfour's generous tribute to the good man- 

 ners of the present House of Commons, the writer 

 of ■' Musings Without Method " bewails the decay 

 of mamiers in the House of Commons : — 



The social currency aUo is debased, and wherever we 

 looli we see the baletul iufluence of the democracv. lu all 

 countries and in all ages democracy has worn the same 

 aspect. Cruel in deed, sentimental in word, it has ever 

 brcught with it vulgarity and ruin. And those adven- 

 turous travellers who have seen the House of Commons 

 governed by working men and aliens, bring us back sad 

 news. Politeness is gone with wisdom. 



TO AEMS! TO AEIIS. YE BEAVE: 



As on the Continent, so in this countrj-, there is a 

 carelessness in demeanour, pertness of tongue, 

 absence of the old-fashioned respect for age and 

 service. The only thing that is worshipped is suc- 

 cess. Another paper entitled " The Call to Arms " 

 is simply a scream of panic on the approach of 

 '• dangerous socialistic measures." It can be imagin- 

 ed how badly Maga is upset when it actually speaks 

 with respect of the old Liberalism, and appeals from 

 the new Liberals to the old for help in this terrible 

 social emergency. Pilate and Herod have indeed 

 been made friends. " We are not the dupes of a 

 senseless panic," it cries, scared by Mr. Keir 

 Hardie's statement that the present distribution of 

 landed property and capital in this countn- is in- 

 jurious to the interests of the people. " We know 

 what that means. Other leaders of the Labour 

 Party have been saying the same thing on various 

 recent occasions, only in stronger and more precise 

 terms.'' So with shrill vehemence the writer pro- 

 ceeds : — 



To all the rest we would say. Do. for God's sake, wake 

 yourselves in time, and ask your own hearts In all 

 earnestness whether you do seriously care for the great 

 political, religious and social system under which England 

 has so long flourished, and which is now openly threat- 

 ened. Do you wish to see religion turned out of your 

 schools, with the consequences that have followed in 

 France, Australia and India; the property of the Church 

 and churchmen reduced so low by confiscation as to make 

 it impossible for them to support religious education by 

 themselves .=■ Do yon wish to see the tyranny of Trade's 

 Unions riveted more firmly than ever on the necks of the 

 working classes, to the great injury of English trade, 

 English workmanship and English character? Do you wish 

 to see the British Empire broken up. your colonies lost, 

 your trade and commerce confined within narrower limits 

 and at the mercy of more powerful competit-ors, your 

 industries beaten in the world's markets, and your wealtli 

 proportionately diminished? Do you wish to see Home 

 Rule conceded to Ireland, which must, inevitably make 

 her poorer than ever, and send thousands more of her im- 



?ov6ri3hed peasantry to seek a livelihood in England, 

 owering wages at every step they take? Do you wish 

 to se« the English aristocracy virtually destroyed, the old 

 country life of England made impossible, castles, halls 

 and manor-houses deserted or in ruins, parks and forests 

 rooted up. the whole face of the country changed, and its 

 old English beauty swept away, game exterminated and 

 field sports practically annihilated?— do you wish to see 

 all this? Let no man treat it as a dream. The longer he 

 does so, the sooner will he find it aj stern reality. 



One wonders what Blackivond will find to say 

 when the 'Labour Partv reallv sets to work. 



