Fourth Noble Lecture Yesterday

Rev. C. C. Hall, D. D., h.97, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, gave the fourth William Belden Noble lecture, on "Temperamental Contrast between East and West," yesterday evening in the Fogg Lecture Room.

Dr. Hall pointed out that it is the ability to understand the universe and to take into consideration the physical and mental differences between the nations of the world that opens a wider scope to the soul. He showed the essential difference between the East and West. The West is governed by the great desire to "do." The philosophy of energy is instinctive. As Matthew Arnold says, "Worship of machinery supplants reverence for God. The East, on the other hand, is mastered by the conviction of the unreality of the world. All things, all persons, are but shadows to the oriental mind. An atmosphere of mystery enshrouds the universe. The Western man seeks the truth outside himself, through researches of science. The Easterner tries to find the truth within himself by thought and meditation.

The next lecture of the series will be given in the Fogg Lecture Room next Monday on "Religious Insight and Experience Outside of Christianity."