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gestion on the one hand and depletion 

 on the other. We want neither over- 

 nutrition nor innutrition. We want 

 hrain-direction, hut we want spontane- 

 ous activity in local centers. We want 

 a proper division of labor, a proper 

 specialization of function. We want a 

 stable equilibrium of society such as re- 

 sults from free contact with natural 

 influences and conditions. To say that 

 a knowledge of the normal and patho- 

 logical conditions of the human body 

 would be of no advantage — would be 

 even a drawback — for the understand- 

 ing of social phenomena and the guid- 

 ance of social action, seems to us a 

 most unreasonable position. We should 

 say that it would be a great and signal 

 advantage provided only — as we have 

 already hinted — that the physiologist 

 knew enough to recognize that social 

 facts call for somewhat wider canons 

 of interpretation than physiological 

 ones. 



But there is positively no science 

 that will not bring its own quota of aid 

 to statesmanship. Chemistry, with its 

 definite laws of combination, its resem- 

 blances concealed under differences and 

 differences concealed under resem- 

 blances, throws many a gleam of light 

 on the phenomena of human action. 

 So with physics, so even with mathe- 

 matics. But when we speak of science 

 aiding statesmanship, be it understood 

 that we mean statesmanship, and not 

 merely the art of the political manager. 

 The statesman can afford to have a 

 mind widened and enriched by every 

 variety of knowledge. Why? Because 

 it is his concern to know the truth 

 about everything, in order that he may 

 consult for the general good to the 

 best possible advantage ; because he 

 wishes to mark out such lines for 

 political activity as rnn parallel with 

 those that Nature has traced in bringing 

 man up to the political stage ; because 

 he wishes to build on Nature's founda- 

 tions, and so help to establish a natural 

 and durable order of things in the po- 



litical world. The party manager, on 

 the other hand, has nothing to do with 

 these things: he wants to organize vic- 

 tory for his party, and for that purpose 

 he only requires the aid of a very spe- 

 cial science — the science of catching 

 votes. At present there is not much 

 science in our politics. Madame Adam 

 need not tremble lest accomplished 

 physiologists should disturb the Amer- 

 ican system with methods borrowed 

 from the laboratory. We keep all such 

 people at a safe distance, and pay honor 

 only to the manipulator of the caucus 

 and the primaries. But when politics 

 comes to be recognized as the science of 

 good government instead of as the sci- 

 ence of getting hold of the government, 

 the need for statesmanship will begin 

 to be felt ; and with the demand for 

 statesmanship will come a recognition 

 of the fact that the highest and widest 

 knowledge can nowhere be more profit- 

 ably or honorably employed than in the 

 service of the community. 



THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRIALISM. 



Theeatexixgs of war continue to 

 reach us from abroad, and appear to 

 grow more serious with each succeed- 

 ing repetition. They are often accom- 

 panied, it is true, by expressions of a 

 desire for peace, emanating in some 

 cases from those highest in authority ; 

 but these seem to be little more than 

 the shallowest pretense, for they are 

 belied by the systematic and unremit- 

 ting preparations for conflict so gener- 

 ally apparent. Yet these very prepara- 

 tions are in turn impudently justified as 

 tending to the preservation of peace 

 and good-will. Taking advantage of 

 the excitement and solicitude that the 

 prospect of a great European war is 

 calculated to arouse, the spendthrift 

 politicians of our own country are vig- 

 orously urging their schemes for the 

 multiplication and improvement of our 

 coast defenses and the increase of our 

 naval armament. These measures are 



