Science and Administration 



not only in its simple application to details of 

 health, of industrial processes, of the arts of war 

 and peace, but also as the guide of policy, the 

 arbiter of principles that are to govern action. 

 It may, indeed, be no easy task to carry out, 

 through the machinery of representative govern- 

 ment, and in the conflicts that make up the 

 nation's public life, the policy that the highest 

 wisdom dictates. But it is possible to make the 

 voice of mature knowledge and scientific judgment 

 more clearly heard in our councils. If it be heard, 

 it will not be neglected wholly ; " and then only 

 will this our State have a possibility of life, and 

 see the light of day." 1 



1 Plato's "Republic," Jouste's translation, vol. iii. p. 171. 



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