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'' the least of those who bear the human form." If I am 

 correctly informed, even the Maoris surpass ourselves in caring 

 for every individual in their community. As I think, it is time 

 that money, the means of the distribution of wealth, should be 

 made to more efficiently perform the office that pertains to it — 

 viz., that " he who gathered much had nothing over," while 

 "he who gathered little had no lack." Political and social 

 science may be considered as being the object and end of all 

 discovery. "Gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost," 

 surely applies not less to humanity and each of its units than 

 to objects whose main title to our attention is that they 

 minister to man's sustentation and well-being. As noticed 

 in the address of the distinguished President of this Associa- 

 tion last evening, scientists should teach us, in the prospect of 

 a vastly-increasing population in these Islands, that the means 

 for their support should not be deported without practical 

 science providing for a renewed supply of the elements of 

 plant-food. It is to be hoped that no considerable portion of 

 the surface of this beautiful and picturesque New Zealand will 

 be rendered useless for all time, like vast tracts in Nubia, Cali- 

 fornia, and elsewhere, when the " disinherited " classes become 

 the special wards of science, and when the civilisation of the 

 future may boast, as did the Incas of Peru in a past age, that 

 not a single person of all their subjects was unprovided for. 



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