Preface 



being made on every side of the value to be 

 attached to it. " Educate, educate, educate/' is 

 the cry heard on all sides. 



What is true of Commerce and Industry is not 

 less true of the Art of Government. This art is 

 founded on science. Where the clear conceptions 

 which science alone can give are absent, con- 

 fusion is the result. People hardly know yet how 

 much this is being realised. Our best reformers 

 in such subjects as Poor Law Administration, in 

 Education, in Local Government, in the region 

 which belongs to the Labour and Commercial sides 

 of the Board of Trade, in Public Health, and, last 

 but not least, in Railway Administration, are yearly 

 insisting more loudly on the necessity of the trained 

 mind. Things are, as a consequence, rapidly 

 ceasing to be what they where. 



The meaning of the change which is taking place 

 is the subject of this volume. 



It speaks for itself, and its tone and line of 

 thought needs no defence from me. For the in- 

 dividual opinions it contains I am not responsible. 

 None the less, I am wholly in accord with the 

 spirit which pervades the book, and in the ideals 

 which it seeks to set forth. 



R. B. HALDANE. 



March 7, 1906. 



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