The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

REVIEWS Listen to Charles Callow-Hay on Stonehenge! Here’s logic for you ! Stonehenge is built in the form of a circle. The sun appears to go round the earth in a circle. Argal, Stonehenge is a solar temple, Or, for the minor premiss : Eggs are round. Argal, Stonehenge was dedicated to Eugenics. Listen to Johnny Bobson on Cleopatra’s Needle | The Needle is square in section. The old Egyptians thought the earth had four corners. Argal, The Needle was built to commemorate the theory. Or, even worse! The Needle is square in section. It must have been built so for a religious reason. Argal, The Egyptians thought that the earth had four corners. It is impossible to commit all possible logical fallacies in a single syllogism. This must be very disappointing to the young bloods of the R.P.A. The Rationalists have created man in their own image, as dull simpletons. They assume that the marvellous powers of applied mathematics shown in the Great Pyramid had no worthier aim than the perpetuation of a superstitious imbecility. Here is Leggy James translating the Chinese classics, Passage I. is of ‘so supreme an excellence that it compels even his respect. What does he do ? He flies in the face of the text and the tradition, asserting that “ heaven” means a personal God. This shows that “God has never left himself without a witness ”—even in China. Passage II. is quite foolish—i.e., he, He, HE, Leggy James Himself, cannot understand it. This shows to what awful depths the unaided intellect of even the greatest heathen must necessarily sink. How fortunate are We—et cetera. It is such people as these who accuse mystics of fitting the facts to their theories. Here is Erbswurst Treacle dictating the Laws of the Universe. It is certain (saith Erbswurst Treacle) that there is no God. And proves it by arguments drawn from advanced biology—the biology of Erbswurst Treacle. Oh ! the shameless effrontery of the Pope who asserts the contrary, and proves it by arguments unintelligible to the lay mind! How shocked is the Rationalist ! My good professor, right or wrong, I may be drunk, but I certainly see a pair of you. 387