Photo by Erdelyi 



TPi]5 "ball-room" of thu salt minl at marosujvar, in transylvanian 



HUNGARY, NEAR THE) ROUMANIAN BOUNDARY 



Rock salt, when pure, is transparent and colorless, but usually is found with an admix- 

 ture of ferric oxide or hydroxide. It then assumes the beautiful colorings of rare marble 

 and color-grained onyx. 



Government by Intellectuals is neces- 

 sarily patriarchal, but it is at least at lib- 

 erty to exhaust upon the country a suc- 

 cession of political theories from which 

 governments under popular control 

 would shrink. I do not suggest that the 

 system is bad, nor even ill-adapted to the 

 requirements of the situation. What I 

 do say is that it is neither representative 

 nor constitutional, as those terms are 

 understood by Anglo-Saxon peoples, nor 

 can all the mass of public-law formulse, 

 charters, treaties, customs, and legal en- 

 actments make it either representative or 

 constitutional. 



Partly as a result of a certain irre- 

 sponsibility, partly in pursuance of the 

 wise policy of taking all that is good and 

 helpful from the experience of other 

 peoples, in part, again, by reason of keen 

 political insight and desire of novelty, 



what may be termed the sociological 

 side of racial problems has received an 

 amount of concentrated attention which 

 other Parliaments, bound to take into ac- 

 count foreign policy, colonies, immigra- 

 tion, trust, commercial, and cognate af- 

 fairs, have been obliged to dissipate. 



The result is that the subjects of hy- 

 giene, food adulteration, sanitation, the 

 welfare of the child, and the proper 

 treatment of the criminal have been taken 

 in hand in a manner which sheds more 

 luster upon the name of Magyar than 

 do all the victories of the Arpad line. In 

 the science of comparative sociology he 

 gives law to the world. No article of 

 food, from milk to meat, can be exposed 

 for public sale in Budapest unexamined, 

 unsealed, and unstamped. 



Whereas punishment in English law is 

 made to fit the crime, in Hungarian law 



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