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During the last two centuries or so, Western intellectuals have experienced a considerable rise in status and employment. A research fellow today normally occupies a more enviable position than the average author in the early eighteenth century, who commonly had to fawn on an aristocratic patron for his daily bread. From the second part of the eighteenth century the market for writers and teachers vastly expanded. The miseries once experienced by ill-paid scribblers in "Grub Street" in early Georgian London became a matter of legend. Education has now become one of the world's major growth industries.In Great Britain—despite the country's economic difficulties—the annual rate of growth of educational expenditure has consistently exceeded the average annual growth of the Gross National Product.

Since time immemorial men have believed in an inner spiritual core of the human personality. All primitive religions hold that man is inhabited by a spirit, however defined. The higher religions claim that man has a soul, that the spiritual nature is the true self, of which the body is a vessel. Since the seventeenth century these notions have been subjected to ever-increasing attacks. The critics of conventional morality include materialists of many different persuasions. However much they differ among themselves, they hold certain principles in common.

A historical account of the factors which contributed towards the reshaping of the image of the white settler in Africa. These were: (a) prior to WWI, reaction against imperialism itself; (b) after WWI, the development of the ideology of trusteeship; (c) the British South Africa Co; (d) prior to WWII, the decolonization that began in Asia & spread to Africa in the 1940's; (e) since WWII, the struggle between Communism & Western Democracy; (f) the popularization of psychol &, generally throughout the 3 periods, changes wrought by the anthrop'ts & the missionaries. Various theories accounting for the white-settler as the money maker & Philistine, the risk-taker, a devil-may-car-adventurer, vs the new stabilized settler who became part of the countries' LF, are detailed. L. P. Chall.

THE SUBSTITUTION OF ETHNIC AFFINITY FOR PERSONAL MERIT IS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT. BUT SUPREME COURT ACTION RAISES THE EVEN MORE VEXING QUESTION OF HOW MINORITY MEMBERS SHOULD BE DEFINED IN LAW. THE USA IS NOT NAZI GERMANY, THE USSR, OR SOUTH AFRICA, BUT IF PRESENT TRENDS CONTINUE THE USA CAN EXPECT INCREASING REFINEMENTS IN RACIAL CLASSIFICATION. POLITICAL BASE IS, HOWEVER, INDIVIDUAL, NOT GROUP, RIGHTS.