The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table classified minds uhe heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. "All eical and practical wisdom, " he observes, " is aension or variation of the arithmetical formulaplusequal . Every philosophical proposition has the meneral character of the expression a plus b equal c. " Now the whole family of John Smith belong decidedly to the category of minds which the Autocrat calls arithmetical intellects. John Smith s father, John Smith senr, alias John Bull, made his fortuh the simple formulaplusequal . John Bull came to a to sell his Maer goods and to make money a on very well with John aman because both he and John aman uood and agreed perfectly upon the formulaplusequal . But John Smith Junr, who now rules the British Empire, es out to a with his head filled with a plus b equal c which he does not uand_and not tent to sell his Maer goods, wants to civilise the ese or, as he expresses it, to "spread Anglo-Saxon ideals . " The result is that John Smith gets on very badly with John aman, and, what is still worse, uhe civilising influence of John Smiths a plus b equal glo-Saxon ideals, John aman, instead of being a good, ho, steady er for Maer goods s his business, goes to g Su-ho s Gardens to celebrate the stitution, in fact bees a mad, raving reformer.
I have lately, by the help of Mr.Putnam Weales "Reshaping of the Far East" and other books, tried to pile a Catechism of Anglo-Saxon Ideals for the use of ese students. The result, so far, is something like this:_
. _ What is the chief end of man?
The chief end of man is to glorify the British Empire.
. _Do you believe in God? Yes, when I go to Church.
._ What do you believe in when you are not in Church? I believe in is_in what will pay.
. _What is justification by faith? To believe in everyone for himself.
. _What is justification by works? Put money in your pocket.
. _What is Heaven?
Heaven means to be able to live in Bubbling Well Roa * and drive in victorias.
. _What is Hell?
Hell means to be unsuccessful.
. _What is a state of human perfectibility? Sir Robert Hart s Servi a.
. _What is blasphemy?
To say that Sir Robert Hart is not a great man of genius.
. _What is the most heinous sin? To obstruct British trade.
. _For urpose did God create the four hundred million ese?
For the British to trade upon.
. _What form of prayer do you use when you pray? We thank Thee,Lord, that we are not as the wicked Russians and brutal Germans are, who want to partition a.
. _Who is the great Apostle of the Anglo-Saxon Ideals in a.
Dr. Morrison, the Times Correspo in Peking. It may be a libel to say that the above is a true statement of Anglo-Saxon ideals, but any one who will take the trouble to read Mr. Putnam Weales book will not deny that the above is a fair represen-
* The most fashionable quarter in Shanghai.
tation of the Anglo-Saxon ideals of Mr. Putnam Weale and John Smith who reads Mr. Putnam Weales books.
The most curious thing about the matter is that the civilising influence of John Smith s Anglo-Saxon ideals is really taking effe a. Uhis influence John aman too is now wanting to glorify the ese Empire. The old ese literati with his eight-legged essays was a harmless humbug. But fners will find to their cost that the new ese literati who uhe influence of John Smiths Anglo-Saxon ideals is clam for a stitution, is