Poems of the Malay Peninsula With An Introductory Essay On the Malay People
Poems of the Malay Peninsula With An Introductory Essay On the Malay People
Richard Greentree
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But the few general notions which the Malay mind con- tains are unrelated to natural facts as well as to one another, and very little distinction is made between the essential and the accidental. Bacon would have called them hasty notions abstracted from the surfaces of things. Mere phenomenalism always leads to a sort of pseudo-rationalism, in those matters, above all, which cannot be verified by the senses. Of this sort are pictures indicative of an original life they had in ancient or far-aw...ay scenes. And so the more cultured Malays are beginning to INTRODUCTION 31 take a pride in their scepticism, which disposes of ghosts, fairies, death-visitants, and the like as ignorant superstitions, only fit for the vulgar. There is a conflict of ideas going on : on the one side is a natural deference to ancestral traditions ; on the other side, arrayed against it, this tendency to reject whatever cannot be satisfactorily explained by the private judgment. The latter is no mean power among individu- alists who secretly think that what they fail to comprehend cannot be comprehended at all.
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