Politicians in most countries aro beginning to realise that statesmanship, like other skilled labour, is . most satisfactory when conducted on scientific principles. But whether British statesmen appreciate- this truth to the same extent as those of other great nations is a matter of gravo doubt. Their education generally has been of such . a character as to leave them with a colossal ignorance of science and scientific methods. —"Nature." Tlio Japanese have absorbed all of our civilisation, and yet keep it concealed undor the Ikwer and pootry of ancient Nippon. .From this union of apparently discordant characteristics is born an inscrutable, strange, and mystorious forcef illness. The Japanese oro clangorous.—"Corriere della Sera," Milan.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 38, 8 November 1907, Page 9
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