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struction, published by the Labour Party, shows the 

 proposals they make for dealing with the surplus of 

 wealth, which science has created and which is at 

 present absorbed by individual proprietors. Whether 

 one agrees with the methods proposed or not, their 

 aims express a high ideal totally new in practical 

 politics. 



"From the same source must come the greatly 

 increased public provision that the Labour Party will 

 insist on being made for scientific investigation and 

 original research, in every branch of knowledge, not 

 to say also for the promotion of music, literature and 

 fine arts, which have been under Capitalism so greatly 

 neglected, and upon which, so the Labour Party 

 holds, any real development of civilisation funda- 

 mentally depends. Society, like the individual, does 

 not live by bread alone, does not exist for perpetual 

 wealth production." 



Lastly, with regard to our third ideal of virtue, 

 concerned with the ethical and religious perceptions, 

 the study of the laws of God and man, rather than 

 with the laws of Nature, is it not even worse served 

 at present in the universities than either of the other 

 two ? What, in these times of transition and doubt, 

 does the university contribute to the innate aspira- 

 tions of men after virtue and justice ? The existing 

 codes and creeds into which human and divine laws 

 have been formulated and crystallised still purport 

 to be their authoritative expressions. But these, 

 with the growth of science and the upheaval it has 

 brought into social relationships and the whole 

 mode of living and outlook of men, whether in peace 

 or war, have become no more than the empty forms 

 from which the living spirit has departed. They are in 

 profound and irremediable disrepute. But the reality 

 we have had exemplified in the modern spirit of duty 

 and self-sacrifice, which the war has revealed to be 



