We lived, he said, in an atmosphere of the most casual education, It was appalling to him when he saw the great forces loose in the world, the armies, the navies, the political hallueinations under which people went to war with each other; when he saw the greatness of all this, and then compared with them the poor little, feeble string of universities, timid, and when a crisis occurred almost inaudible, and the rarity of anything like a really efficient school in the world, He believed that unless there was a strenuous effort to organize our mental life on a sounder and bolder scale the outlook for humanity was pitiful indeed. He found it almost impossible to find anybody with the. enthusiasm, possibly the fanaticism, the devotion, necessary for this reconstruction of a mental organization. We had, in all these movements for the coordination of knowledge, the beginnings of an accumulation of a systematic arrangement, of knowledge, but we must have general consolidation of that knowledge, we must have summarization, we must have a world ideology brought into existence, it we desired to see a world much better than it was today. could not obtain legal possession of forests or take practical steps towards their utilization, The directors are now free to consider plans for the utilization of the "forests, At the conclusion of a meeting of the Bondholders' Incorporation Commission this morning, the chairman, Mr, Barton, said that after hearing counsel for parties a form of order, known as a compounding maintenance contract, was approved.
Mr. Barton said that voluminous evidence had been considered and discussed, after the sitting of the Commission had closed, by all three members. They agreed wholly with the decision to compound the maintenance of forests, and approved the sum fixed as compensation. They considered the sum fair and reasonable.
Every issue in dispute had either been finally dealt with, or as stated in the deed, reserved for the final decision of ihe Commission.
Mr. Barton expressed appreciation of the ce-operation of counsel for the parties There had been no giving way of rights, he said, but everything had been settled in a wise spirit of compromise, There was nobody who was, say, younger than himself and had some energy available, who could not do something to forward this notion, It had to be talked about, tried out in all sorts of ways, and perhaps they would infect some of those enterprise ing people who had the control of large sums of money. He did not see that being done. There was much devotion but, at present, nothing in the nature of a movement.
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