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.s Gwvl Gobeithlu Bryn Crwn.…
s Gwvl Gobeithlu Bryn Crwn. ¡ Diwrnod mawr yn hanes plant ardal y Bryn Crwn oedd dydd Gwcner y r -i.cg cyfisol, oblegid tlyualr diwrnod yr ocddynt wedi ei ueillduo i fed yn ddydd gwyl ei gobeithlu, pryd yr oedd llafur cyson a difiino misoedd y gaunf i gael ci ddadlenu i'r cyhoedd, ae er gwueuthur ei hymosodiad ar y cawr alcohol. Ond yn anfrbdus gwaith y cawr Influenza ymosodiad disymwth, a gwnaeth ddifrod nid byehan yn y gwersyll, fel yr ofhid y byddai rhaid gohirio dydd y frwydr, and fel mihvyr profegig, catodd y "Gwys i'r Gad" ufudd-dod gaii yr oil, er eu clwyfaii, ac yr oedd y dyrfa fawr a ddaeth yn nghyd o bell ac agos yn ar- goeli yn dda am wyl lhvyddianus. Dechreuwyd am dri o'r gloch, pryd yr oedd gwledd oi, fath oreu wedi ei arlwyo yn y vestri gan y chwiorydd caalynol Mrs. Ben- jamin J. Pritchard, Miss Hanna Jones, Miss Eliza A. Jones, Miss Gwen Morgan, Miss Hannah Morgan, Mary J. Morgan, Miss Rachel Morgan, Miss Buddug Jones a Miss Rhiola C- Jones. Gofahvyd am y bara a'r teisenod gan Mrs. Roberts (Mostyn) a Mrs. Thomas Rowlands, a chyflawnodd yr oll eu gwaith yn ddcheuig fel arfer. Dechreuwyd ar y gyngherdd am hancr awr wedi ehwech, ac aed trwy y rhaglen ganlynoll o dan arweiniad y Br. John Foulkes Ton gan y cor, Arghvydd p;1wb yw Ef I Adroddiadau gan Newton Pugh, CyniTig I Davies, Llewelyn Pugh, Evan M. Pugh Ton gan y cor, "Awn, meddianwn y wlad Ad- roddiadau gan Annie Jones, Emily Hughes, Trofanna Ilowells, a John Etniyn Foulkes; Ton gan y côr, Cenadwrjlr Brenin Ad- droildiadau gan Rhiola C. Jones, Erian Hughes; Unawd gan Buddug Jones; Ad- voddiadnuau gan Annie Jones (Clydfan), Mwyni Ap I wan Ton gan y cOr Adroddiadau gan Samuel Morgan a Netta Lewis Ton gan y parti, "Tros y Garreg Adroddiad, Laura Roberts; Ym- gom Rhannu'r Deisen," gan Eliza Rogers, Enid M. Foulkes a Dafydd Roberts Ton gan y cor, Gras cadwedigol" Adroddiadau gan Ceinwen Jones, a Lilly Hughes Unawd a Chydgan gan Rachel Morgan Adroddiadau gan Iorwertii Morgan a Geraint Gwyn Wal- ters Tdn gan y cOr, "Y Ddinas Sanctaidd Adroddiadau gan Ceinwen Rogers, Eliza Rogers; Dcuawd gan Gwen ac Edith Mor- gan Adroddiadau gan David E. Roberts, Rache! Morgan; Ton cfelychiado!, d Sig-I So'r Babi," gan y parti; Adroddiad gan MciU- 10nen Jones T0n, Beth fydd mynd yno i fyw," gan y cor; Ymgom, Y Doctor," gan Geraint G. Walters a Lilly Hughes Adrodd- iad, Mary J. Morgan Ton, Hwli lwIi," gan y parti; Ymgom, I Y Forwyn Newydd," gan Eliza A. Jones, Edith Morgan, Mary J. Mor- gan, Rachel Morgan, Arthur Morgan, William D. Rogers Ton, "Y Nefol\Vlacl,"gan y cor; Adroddiad, Edith Morgan a Nest R. Edwards; Ton gan y cor, "Duw fo gyda chwi nes eto cwrdd." Caf\vyd dwy awr a hauer o gwrdd, yn am- lygu maiut y llafur a fu yn y gobeithlu. Yr oedd y canu a'r adroddiadau oil, o dan ar- weintad Mr. Walters, a hyfrydwch oedd gwelêd yplaut yn rhoddi ufudd-dod a sylw ¡ ?nor rIngorol i'w harweinydd hoff, a theil- ynga y clod a'r diolchgarwch mwyaf am ei ymdrechion dihafal yn y cyfeiriad yma. Nid oedd y canu a'r adrodd gystal ag arfer; yn wir, y syudod oedd ei fod gystal, oblegid swn pesweh aglywyd o bob cyfciriad, a dim ond penderfyniad di-ildio a'u galluogodd i ddal hyd y diwcdd. Cyflwynwyd diolchgarwch gwresocaf y cy- farfod i Mr. Walters am ei waith rhagorol, ac iei plant am eu gwasanaeth hwy. Nis gellir rhoddi gormod o bwys ar werth-1 fawredd y gwaith yma gyda'r plant, oblegid fel y dywcd Jeremy Taylor, Mae amser yn rhy brin i brynu golud Jawcr, i foddloni balchder ynfydyn gwageddus, i sangu ar lioll elynion ein buddianau cyiiawn neu ang- hyfiawn; ond tuag at sicrhau rhinwedd, prynu sobrwydd a gwyleidd-dra, a chyflawni dyledswyddau crefydd, rhydd Duw i ni am- ser ddigon, os gwnawn ni fynediad y bore aIr prydnawn, hyny yw plentyndod a henaint, i fYurfio rhan o gyfrifiadau dyn." A sicr yw y bydd ymdrechion difiino a dinygnach Air. Walters gyda phlant y Wladfa yn un o'r dy- lanwadau hyny, fydd yn sicrhau Rhinwedd, Sobrwydd, a Gwyleidd-dra, yn uodweddion amlwg yn mywyd Camwy Fydd."—Z.
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Is German Philosophy responsi- ble for German Militarism ? i Ax ADDRKSS DELIVERED TII CAMWY I FYDD SOCIETY, THELEW, OX OCT. 1 5, IQR6. lIL I I Liordot- to understand thecauseand scopeof this reaction against what is generally known as theCritical and Idealist Philosophywc must try toobtai n a near and appropriate idea, if pos- sible, of what is meant by the terms "critical" and "idealistic." The former would seem to indicate the spirit in which Kant conceived himself to be inspired vyheu hect b inlscJf to examine the materialistic and atheist philoso- phy of which Holbach's System ot Nature" was perhaps the chief exponent. Ilolbach was one of the thinkers of the French Re- volution School whose inctaphysie Kant had grown greatly to distrust. Yet he liked to claim that his own examination of fundamen- tal problems was fully as radical and criti- cal as that of the French scientific theorist. With regard to the use of the word Ideal- ism," in connection with German classical philosophy, the (?icstion is one of consider- able difLiculty, and we cannot hope to touch more than the surface of it in this brief and imperfect summary. However, in order to avoid any injustice to the critical idealists," I will quote the very words of Dr. Muirhead all the point:— ¡ As all theories," lie says, may be said to be materialistic in spiritWhich starts on the assumption that the parts are prior to the whole, so all may be said to be idealistic which starts from the assumption that the whole is prior to the part; not in the sense "that you can have any who J « withoin the parts, but in the sense that you can have no "whole which ts merely a mechanical nggre- gate, of independent units. Idealism therc- for maintains that, so far from being able to understand any concrete thing in experience by an inspection of the parts taken se- parately, we can only understand .the parts in relation to the whole which endows them with their particular form of individuality." The practical result of this recondite theory upon the English school of idealist philoso- phers appears to be that it enables them to re- concile the most shattering results of the Higher Biblical Criticisms, and of modern science with the maintenance of a correct, if somewhat external religious orthodoxy in the face ot a conventional world. It was a feeling of dissatisfaction with this attitude, as applied to the condition of schol- arship and science in Germany during the first quarter of the 19th Century, that caused Schopellhauer-who was born in 1788 and died in 186o-to raise the standard of revolt against the critico-idealistic scheme of thought. His chief work, published in [I) r R, was entitled, "The World as Will and Idea." In this he sought for a clue to the ultimate nature of the Universe in Will, by which he meant the blind impulse of which all Nature, including man himself, is the manifestation. And he declared: The Will alone is a Thing-in-itself." Here certainly we might seem to have discovered the origin of that famous phrase "The Will to Power," with which the translations of the historian Treitschke and the soldier Bernhardi have made us fam- iliar since the war began. But the philoso- phy of Schopenhauer was built as his ad- miraion for the passivity and pessimism of the brooding and Buddhistic East, while the World-polity principle of the soldier- like historian and the historian-soldier had for its basis the directly opposing Western doctrine of actual and optimitjc muscular Christianity. Schopenhauer admitted that Society, as wc know it in modern Europe, is the outcome of the Will-to-live. But with him—as with the Brahminieal or Buddhistic sage—it is this very Will which is the source of all illusion and unhappiness. And lie actually raged against Hegel's defence of the value of the State because, to him, the State was the un- holy incarnation of the Willrto-live which is the efficient cause of all our woe. In 1856 Schopenhauer was gratified and surprised to learn that his philosophy—he had by then written other formal treaties and many other popular essays—was acclaimed by officers stationed at various Prussian gar- risons. And we find the German psycholo- gist Wundt observing that in 1877 this phil- josophy, as interpreted by Hartnianu, was more popular in Germany than any other While it is quite possible that the intellect- ual interests shewn by Prussian officers in reading Schopenhaucr would also lead them to a systematic study of the science and ait of war, little appreciated-in the foreign arm- ies of their time, it is extremely difficult to believe that from this non-political, pleasure-loving pessimist they would gain any encouragement for a scheme of Prussian domination over Germany, and an eventual GennAn domination over Europe. Let us now pass on to Ilartmaun, the most philosophical of the Prussian officers who fell under Schopenhauer's influence. Born in 1842, left the Engineer's Corps of the army in 1865, in consequence of an accident; and so early as 1867 had published his Philosophy "of the Unconscious." In r877 he produced The Phenomenology of the Moral Conscious- tilICSS." Among his various treatises and essays, the best known is the Religion of the Future." Now, if the German metaphysical philoso- phy of the last 150 years be suspected of pro- viding a theoretical foundation for the over- mastering militarism from which all Europe is suffering to-day; then we might fairly suppose that the tokens of such influence would be easily detected in a scheme of thought elaborated by an ex-Prussian officer out of the idealistic systems of Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, more espe- cially when fertilised, as in the present case, by the so-called" materialistic results of the newer philosophy of biological evolution I —yet, what do we find ? ELLIS TIIURTELL. ( To be continued.)
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Betst Gactwatadr-. PEXXOD X. Nid ocdd yr esgob gartref pm gyrhaedd- odd Betsi y ty, gan y galwesid ef at wely rhyw glaf i roddi "gollyngdod" (viaticum) i'w enaid ocdd ar ymadael air hen ryd he1. bulus preseuoP ebai y dwylath porthor o liw'r eboui wrthi. Gofynodd iddo pa bryd y disgwylid yr esgob yn ol ? "Tua deg o'r gloch" ebr y gwr dn, felly peuderfynodd Betsi ei aros yn yr ystafell gyfarcb gan ei bod cisys wedi uaw or gloch. Toe, cyr- hacddodd yr esgob—"clobyn o ddyn mawr, cyducrth a graeuus yr olwg arno, ;)!i wen garuaidd yn ddangoseg amhvg ei fod yn mwynhau bywvd y-li dda,"—tybiai yr esgob yn siwr mai wedi dyfoc1 i gyffesu ei pheehod- all yr oedd ci ymwetydd, a gofynodd iddi a oedd y rhai hyny yn fawrion iawn ? "Twt, twt," ebai Betsi, nid pabyddes wyf fi, dysg- wyd i mi beth gwcll na hyny, fy ucges gyda chwi sydd dros un arall" ac estynodd y rhestr o bcchodau ei mei'stres iddo. With sylwi arno yn darllen y papyr, gwelai ei lygaid yn gloewi a thon osirioldeb yn yindoni dros ei wyueb wisgai guwch funud neu lai yn flaeuorol Ar 01 iddo orphen darllen y papyr, dywed- ai Betsi wrtho 11 ad oedd Mrs. Smith wedi nodi un pechod mawr iawn o'i hoiddo, sef oedd hvvmv, ei gwaith yn llosgi Bibl ei phriod ryw ddiwrnod neu ddau yn flaenorol --atebodd yr esgob hi yn gwta nad ystyriai ef hyny yn bechod o cwbl! wedi hyny ys- gritenodd nodyn cyfeiriedig i'r feistres g;an ofyn i Betsi roddi yr arian oedd ganddi oddi- wrth Mrs. Smith ar glawr Hyfr oedd ar y bwrdd oii flaen gofynodd hithau iddo nodi y swm dyledus, a'r atebiad ydoedd saith doubloon, talodd hithau yr arian gan ddwe- yd wrtho fod pechu yn costioyn ddrud iawn, ac ychwanegodc1 "Yr wyf yn synu tod hCll foneddwr fel y chwi yn credu y fath fnloreg fod yn bosibl rhoddi maddeuant i neb drwy gylfesiad a derbyn tal am hyny" I pryd yr atcbodd y gwr eglwysig hi yn swta—Pro- testant ydych chwi. Nid oes gcnych ffydd" Ie, ebai Betsi, ond yr wyf 3m credu vrefengvl a'r Bibl" ¿ "Ein heglwys ni yw y wir eglwys" chr yr esgob gan groesi ei ddwyfroii—: "1.01 i gyd" ebai hithail yn ol, mi a dely- wedaf i chwi beth yw sylwedd yr eiengyi, Ipee/la dur mag a G:i,at'edzvr parad ac aM i faddeuP Yn cac! hwyl ar y sgwrs gyda'r parchcdig dad, gofynodd Betsi—"Qs yn dy- iniiuo fy llesiant paham na fuasech yn gw- I eddio yn saesneg--iaith a clclepllaf-yji lie yn y lladin, iaith nas deallaf air ohoni" ?