ANNUAL ADDRESS XXXIII. 



as the only true ones." The situation is complicated by 

 the fact that there is dissension in the camp. There is 

 discord in our midst when all should be united to meet the 

 keen competition of other nations. Our efforts are largely 

 negatived by our domestic quarrels. Class is opposed to 

 class ; labour is opposed to capital. We have monopolies 

 on the one hand, attempts at State socialism on the other. 

 Equality of opportunity is demanded by some ; equality of 

 reward required by others. In endeavouring to solve the 

 problem of training a nation in the arts and industries, 

 these difficulties must necessarily be taken into account. 

 It is quite evident that c Demos ' for better or worse is in 

 power, and that permanently. But properly interpreted 

 this may be, and I think should be, regarded as a great 

 ground for hopefulness. As a recent writer has put it — 

 " In our modern democracy the nation has called out its 

 last reserves, and its success or failure must depend upon 

 the action of the great body of the citizens, and not upon 

 any small class of them." Once this is realised the urgency 

 of the proper taining of the great bulk of the people which 

 must and should be in the direction of industrial enterprise, 

 is only made more evident. 



THE URGENT NECESSITY FOR NATIONAL TRAINING. 



The pressing necessity which should weigh upon the mind 

 of every statesman, and every man in any public capacity, 

 in fact upon every citizen should surely be this one of 

 providing that adequate scientific and industrial training 

 for the nation, which for convenience we commonly refer 

 to as technical education. We at present have no 

 systematic scheme for training the great bulk of the people 

 for ' the sequel of their lives.' We have tacitly agreed 

 with most other nations that apprenticeship is dead, and 

 have virtually abandoned apprenticeship as a system, but 

 have substituted nothing for it. We are right to assume that 



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