Continuity 7 



In Physiology the conflict ranges round Vital- 

 ism. (My immediate predecessor dealt with 

 the subject at Dundee.) 



In Chemistry the debate concerns Atomic 

 structure. (My penultimate predecessor is 

 well aware of pugnacity in that region.) 



In Biology the dispute is on the laws of In- 

 heritance. (My nominated successor is 

 likely to deal with this subject; probably 

 in a way not deficient in liveliness.) 



And besides these major controversies, debate 

 is active in other sections : 



In Education, Curricula generally are being 

 overhauled or fundamentally criticised, and 

 revolutionary ideas are promulgated con- 

 cerning the advantages of freedom for 

 infants. 



In Economic and Political Science, or Soci- 

 ology, what is there that is not under dis- 

 cussion? Not property alone, nor land alone, 

 but everything, back to the garden of Eden 

 and the inter-relations of men and women. 



Lastly, in the vast group of Mathematical 

 and Physical Sciences, "slurred over rather 

 than summed up as Section A," present- 

 day scepticism concerns what, if I had to 

 express it in one word, I should call Con- 

 tinuity. The full meaning of this term will 

 hardly be intelligible without explanation, 

 and I shall discuss it presently. 



