Social Purpose—I, The New Scale of Life'
THIS is the first of a new series of talks by Professor Laski, the well-known authority on political science, which is to replace the series that Professor Graham Wallas is, owing to illness, unable to give. In it he will attempt to analyze our social institutions-a task considerably more complex now than it was considered to be, for instance, after the Napoleonic wars. The scale of our life has altered ; the machinery upon which we depend is far more delicate ; our wants arc more various and more intense; and the division of labour is much more intricate. Social organization is concerned with the problem of how best to build the forms of government that the wants of men may be most fully supplied.