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 OBFEOT$ OF DEVELOPMENT 57 of all and oh io physiosl ' em o- amencos. ing and actory practice thought action by the ideas of the Applied through engineer- in a thousand prodigiously successful ways, these mechanical ideas have come to direct every thought and plan There has been no concurrent his wants, his feelings, in of study their men o! action. of mankind-- infinite variety characteristic of every organic growth, every natural species. Furthermore, the industrial revolution has ha a centralizing tendency through the extraordinary improvement o! oommunications. This has operated in the economic sphere to aggregate capital under the central control of large companies or combinations; and in the sphere o! Government it has meant the centralization o! control and, to a great extent, o! initia- tive for the whole country in the metropelis. I have already referred above to the uniformity o! our State controlled system o! education modelled by a code o! such a character that the small degree o! free- dom left to teachers is o! little use to them. In fact they have all been trained according to one model in training colleges, which are also to & great extent designed and run according to standard type. I have also referred to the effects of the building bye-laws in producing miles o! straight monotonous streets, well paved and drained, but with no sign o! plant life or anything to redeem their harsh ugliness. It is such education.and such repressive earroundings o! daily life which cause industrial unrest and mmy' deplor- able 'social evils. The individual feels tt he is being compelled both to work and live in & distasteful manner according to uniform rules decided for him by forees too strong for him to resist, baffling even the power o! united labor.. In one country he blames the "capitalistic system", in another the Government, in most countries both more or less. Yet neither