When he talked to teachers and ventured to say to them, "Wouldn't you like to have a really big encyclopaedia at the back of you. supplying material for your lessons?" they flared up and said, "But we know everything already. Mr, Wells doesn't understand in the least. what we are doing. He is unaware that we are making a new world as fast as it can be made." He always replied that he was not blaming them, but that what they were doing was something quite pitiful in relation to what ought to be done.
Professor Pollard said that specialization in research was running the risk of producing more data than were getting worked into competent generalization. Knowledge has become unmanageable. There were, he submitted, two aspects of the mobilization of knowledge, the order-reference to original documents, and the condense! their contents into instructive narratives for the use of intellectual people, two very different things. Subject bibliography was being organized by national bodies, in this country by the British Society for International Bibliography.
The counsel for New Zealand Forest Products, Ltd, said that 70,000 bondholders in different parts of the world, but chiefly in New Zealand and Australia, would be interested.
Counsel for New Zealand Perpetual Forests, Ltd. said that the proceedings marked the conclusion of a monumental task.
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