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184 so unanimous and so entirely unaffected, either by Christianity or by civilization, at least affords to a scientific observer the material for an irresistible generalization.

And long ago, Lord Macaulay said much the same thing in the following words:

‘Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of state.

Thus we see biologists, psychologists, historians, philosophers, statesmen, economists and engineers giving the same kind of advice, each from their own angle. The people of the world can not settle their great problems by popular vote, for the reason that they can not understand them. Statesmen ought to act for them and the statesmen themselves ought to obtain the advice of scientists. They must lead the people, not assume to let the people lead them, for the leading would then be in too many directions and all of it blind. Intelligent people of all kinds should aid in the leadership, as indeed they are now trying patriotically to do, as perhaps never before, owing to their appreciation of the gravity of the outlook into the future. The masses of people themselves are praying for such leadership. We are all in the same boat. If it sinks, both rich and poor, strong and weak, will be drowned. Consideration of courses must be with the head. Emotional appeals to the heart may induce a people to unite in a decision to go to war, or to make peace, but they can not solve economic problems. They are most apt to stimulate erroneous, misguiding thoughts. The relatively few communists that we have among us