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have a Labour Party in power in this country, and, 

 whether or no this does occur, much that is taking- 

 place can be traced at all events to the possibility 

 that it may occur. It is well that the universities, 

 especially, should re-examine their ideals, for the 

 Labour Party, unlike the parties of which we have 

 had experience, profess very high ideals indeed, 

 judged by the canons of a literary and classical 

 education, altogether Utopian ideals. From the 

 standpoint of science the ideals they profess are not 

 Utopian, whatever may be the case from the moral 

 and human standpoint. On the score of physical 

 practicability they are no longer visionary, for 

 science within the past century has multiplied the 

 resources of this planet to support a higher standard 

 of living among all workers to an extent that even 

 the criminally wasteful and ignorant methods of the 

 existing competitive and individualistic system has 

 not been able altogether to conceal. 



The President of the Board of Education, the 

 Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, at the recent Anniversary 

 Dinner of the Chemical Society, after a reference to 

 the issue of the recent conflict as one of the greatest 

 victories which chemistry had ever won in the 

 history of mankind, and, incidentally and humorously, 

 to himself as a melancholy product of the dark ages 

 of compulsory Greek, went on to say : " Nevertheless, 

 if we turn over the pages of Huxley's Addresses on 

 the place of science in national education and there 

 are few finer specimens of virile English prose I 

 think we shall feel that if the great master were 

 among us here, he would acknowledge that the cause 

 to which he dedicated his life has been practically 

 won. We want more money for science we want a 

 great deal more money for science we want more 

 teachers, we want more learners, but in the main the 

 battle is won. If there are any sceptics to-day they 



