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administrative side. And this implies the formation of an official body which is sure to become a seat of social power.

In the third place, we cannot hope with our utmost efforts to improve our free schools fast enough to keep pace with the increasing complexity of social relations and the growing reli- ance on the knowledge of the specialist. As higher education, claiming more and more years of one's life, widens the space between those who possess it and those who do not, and as the enlightenment of the public wanes relatively to the superior enlightenment of the learned castes and professions, the man- darinate will infallibly draw to itself a greater and greater share of social power.

EDWARD ALSWORTH Ross.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, -California.