"The course of events in recent times has vindicated in a measure the Sinophilism of Voltaire and Quesnay. For the last sixty years the British civil service has been recruited on the principle of open competitive examination.... it has come to be recognized.that the offices of the permanent administ"
"The event of the last two decades have compelled admission that the sovereign peoples may not be able to maintain civilization unless they can think more constructively than hitherto on social and international questions."
"To make the political animal able to bear the stress of civilized life in the age of machine power - this is the task of the twentieth century, and the recognition of it marks the end of the belief once common that man needs only better machines and better salesmanship in order to reach the millenni"
"The study of social man is to be again the central science. Not through any devaluation of the other sciences, but because the other sciences ultimately depend for their value on the maintenance of civilized life, which is the activity of men in a society. No knowledge of the stars or of plants or o"