The Statesman Who Yields To

Science Bestowed Immense New Powers On Man, And At The Same Time, Created Conditions Which Were Largely Beyond His Comprehension.

Watch Your Habits, They Determine Your Character.

We Used To Be A Source Of Fuel; We Are Increasingly Becoming A Sink. These Supplies Of Foreign Liquid Fuel Are No Doubt Vital To Our Industry, But Our Ever-increasing Dependence Upon Them Ought To Arouse Serious And Timely Reflection. The Scientific Utilisation, By Liquefaction, Pulverisation And Other Processes, Or Our Vast And Magnificent Deposits Of Coal, Constitutes A National Object Of Prime Importance.

I Think It Is The Most Important Subject Facing This Country, But I Cannot Get Any Of My Ministers To Take Any Notice.

There Are Two Processes Which We Adopt Consciously Or Unconsciously When We Try To Prophesy. We Can Seek A Period In The Past Whose Conditions Resemble As Closely As Possible Those Of Our Day, And Presume That The Sequel To That Period Will, Save For Some Minor Alterations, Be Similar. Secondly, We Can Survey The General Course Of Development In Our Immediate Past, And Endeavor To Prolong It Into The Near Future. The First Is The Method The Historian; The Second That Of The Scientist. Only The Second Is Open To Us Now, And This Only In A Partial Sphere.