The Power Of Authority Is Never More

It Has Always Been Desirable To Tell The Truth, But Seldom If Ever Necessary.

But Science Is The Great Instrument Of Social Change, All The Greater Because Its Object Is Not Change But Knowledge, And Its Silent Appropriation Of This Dominant Function, Amid The Din Of Political And Religious Strife, Is The Most Vital Of All The Revolutions Which Have Marked The Development Of Modern Civilisation.

Man, So Far As Natural Science By Itself Is Able To Teach Us, Is No Longer The Final Cause Of The Universe, The Heaven-descended Heir Of All The Ages. His Very Existence Is An Accident, His Story A Brief And Transitory Episode In The Life Of One Of The Meanest Of The Planets.

He [a. J. Balfour] Was Eminently One Of The Cole Porter School Of Famous Men, Who Only Fell To Rise Again. Picking Himself Up And Brushing Himself Down Became A Minor Art Form, Ruefully Admired By His Contemporaries.

His Majesty's Government Looks With Favour Upon The Establishment In Palestine Of A National Home For The Jews.