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of some form of wide and powerful control. Has not Science forged 

 the remedy, by making the woi-ld a smaller arena for the activities of 

 civilisation, by reducing distance in terms of time? Alliances and 

 unions, which have successfully controlled and stimulated republics of 

 heterogeneous races during the last century, will therefore have become 

 possible on a wider and grander scale, thus uniting all civilised nations 

 in a great League to maintain order, security, and freedom for every 

 individual, and for every State and nation liberty to devote their energies 

 to the controlling of the great forces of Nature for the use and con- 

 venience of man, instead of applying tliem to the killing of each other. 



Many of us remember the President's Banner at the Manchester 

 Meeting in 1915, where Science is allegorically represented by a sorrow- 

 ful figure covering her eyes from the sight of the guns in the foreground. 

 This year Science is represented in her more joyful mien, encouraging 

 the arts and industries. It is to be sincerely hoped that the future 

 will justify our present optimism. 



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