Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1926 |
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Page 5 - Science, and its increasing recognition as a principal part of our national education, the public in general, no less than the Legislature and the State, will more and more recognise the claims of Science to their attention ; so that it may no longer require the begging-box, but speak to the State, like a favoured child to its parent, sure of his parental solicitude for its welfare ; that the State will recognise in Science one of its elements of strength and prosperity, to foster which the clearest...
Page 221 - I think it highly desirable that criminals should be hated, that the punishments inflicted upon them should be so contrived as to give expression to that hatred, and to justify it so far as the public provision of means for expressing and gratifying a healthy natural sentiment can justify and encourage it.
Page 5 - ... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 139 - ... and the lessening importance of land in total wealth, and the weakening influence of primogeniture, which makes for family diffusion rather than concentration. Even if the distribution slope has not greatly changed, probably the inheritance system affects the angle of the existing slope. Professor Pigou remarks, in regard to the alleged immutability of the Pareto law, that income depends not on capacity alone, but on a combination of capacity and inherited property, and the latter is not distributed...
Page 123 - ... creation of large industrial centres with workers completely divorced from food production would be an entire innovation of very doubtful desirability; it appears most unlikely to occur. The African man, and still more the woman, is firmly attached to the soil, and the whole fabric of social organization is based upon the right to cultivate ; it thus seems probable that the native will always aim at having his own home among his own crops, whether in a distant village, or as a 'squatter
Page 1 - to give a stronger impulse and more systematic direction to scientific inquiry — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the...
Page 5 - We may be justified in hoping, however, that by the gradual diffusion of Science, and its increasing recognition as a principal part of our national education, the public in general, no less than the Legislature and the State, will more and more recognize the claims of Science to their attention; so that it may no longer require the...
Page 229 - The criminal law thus proceeds upon the principle that it is morally right to hate criminals, and it confirms and justifies that sentiment by inflicting upon criminals punishments which express it.
Page 113 - Kenya Colony, Uganda, Tanganyika Territory, Zanzibar, Nyasaland, and Northern Rhodesia. This block contains a population of approximately 12,500,000 Africans, 50,000 Asiatics, and less than 20,000 Europeans. The second block, almost equal in area to the East African group, but with less than half the population, is formed by the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In West Africa we have four colonies with a total area of half a million square miles and a population of over 24,000,000 Africans. In British West...