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actor of an impersonal, dispassionate, not to

say celess, investment for proﬁt. . . . “ xcept for a possible reversion to a cul tural situation strongly characterized by ideals

of emulation and status, the ancient racial bias embodied in the Christian principle of brotherhood should logically continue to gain ground at the expense of the pecuniary morals of competitive business."

"The Present Task of Ethical Theory." By James H. Tufts.

International journal of

Ethics, v. 20, p. 141 (Jan).

"It is the privilege and duty of ethical theory to contribute conceptions which will aid legislatures and courts in their task—to take the words of the federal Su reme Court-of ‘so dealing with the con itions which exist as to bring out of them the great est welfare of its people.’" “The Theory of Evolution and Mutual

Aid."

By

Prince

Kropotkin.

Nineteenth

Century and After, v. 67, p. 86 (Jan). “We shall see how, after having himself indicated the three different aspects which Struggle for Life may take in Nature, he [Dar win] gradually came, in an indirect way, to attribute less and less value to the individual struggle inside the species, and to recognize more signiﬁcance for the associated struggle against environment; and next we shall have to see how the mass of experimental researches made within the last twenty-ﬁve years about the inﬂuence of surroundings upon the forms if plants and animals, has modiﬁed opinion in favor of the direct action of environment, which lays much less stress on strug 1e for hfe as a species-producin agenc t n is required by the theory of atural lection." "Australian Morality." By Prof. Irving King. Popular Science lllonthly, v. 76, p. 147 (Feb.). “All things considered, we are obliged to

say that their [the aborigines'] life was moral in a high degree, when Judged by their own social standards, and not even accordin

to

our standards are they to be regarde as altogether wanting in the higher attributes of character. Dawson holds that, aside from their low re ard for human life, the com pared favora ly with Europeans on a points of morality." Evidence. “Expert Testimony, Its Abuse and Reformation." By Lee M. Friedman_ 19 Yale Law journal 247 (Feb). “Today in any large city if an attorney calls to retain a physician in a personal injury case, the ﬁrst question which the physician will probably ask is b which ‘side’ of the case he is retained. I the physician is one who is constantly appearing in court, he will refuse to accept a retainer from a plaintiﬂ if his appearance has been generally on the defendant's behalf, and vice versa. From his point of view to mix ‘sides’ is bad business. So the regular court experts not only come to be tagged in court as ‘plaintiff's experts’

or ‘defendant's experts,’ but they come in their practice more or less unconsciously to get into a chronic one-sided medical point of view." Export Testimony. See Evidence. Foreign Relations. "American Affairs." By A. Maurice Low. National Review, v. 54, p. 996 (Feb.). "Mr. Root, as Secretary of State, laid great stress on securing the friendship and con ﬁdence of the Latin American Republics; and so far as Central America was concerned the keynote of his diplomac was the co operation and conﬁdence of exico. . . . The entente that existed under the Root régime has been weakened, if not destroyed, and

Mexico is now viewed with some suspicion. Even more important is the semi-oﬁicial announcement that Brazil is to take the place formerly occupied by Mexico." “Imperial and Foreign Affairs: The Elec tions and Their Meaning." By J. L. Garvin. Fortnightly Review, v. 87, p. 189 (Feb). "If British sea-power breaks down and the British Empire breaks up, it is as certain as anything in the future can be that the United States will be controlled by Germany in the Atlantic and by r{apan in the Paciﬁc, that South America wi pass beyond the inﬂuence of Washington, and that the Panama Canal will not remain in American hands. To some of us, both in the Mother Country and in Canada, it appears quite clearly that the cause of British Imperialism is the cause of the United States. . . . To et any very serious consideration for these i eas in the United States at ‘present seems im ossible. All that can be said is that An lo- merican relations in the last few years ave themselves gone from bad to worse in the direction of a ‘silent dissolution’ of effective friendship." Freedom of the Press. "The Press Law in India." By Sir Andrew Fraser, K. C. S. I_ (late Lieut.-Governor of Bengal). Nineteenth Century and After, v. 67, p. 227 (Feb.). “It is most undesirable to make the law more strict than is necessary; for it is very

desirable in India to have the means of ventilating grievances, exposing abuses, and giving expression to the opinion even _of_a small section of the community. But it is, on the other hand, as experience has now fully shown, absolutely essential to restrain the licentious section of the press from the dissemination of such literature as has poisoned the minds of considerable sections of the people." Government. “German Constitutional Law in its Relation to the American Constitution." By Otto Gierke. 23 Harvard Law Review

273 (Feb). This is the Lowell Institute lecture given by Dr. Gierke in Boston, Oct. 4, 1909, when the distin uished 'urist was in this country as the delegate o the University of Berlin