Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: By LOKD LEVEEHULME The greatest wealth of the British Empire is its wealth in men and women. So measured, it is the most glorious as it is the largest, as well as the richest and the most powerful, Empire the world has ever seen. In laying the foundations of this Empire, successive generations have seen to the full equipment, in advance of all other nations, of our battleships, our mercantile marine. Our manufacturers have been progressive in the adoption of machinery, plant, and mechanical utilities, providing ample capacity for world-wide trade and commerce. Yet, through all the centuries, governments and citizens have been singularly indifferent to the human element in productive enterprise, to the housing and healthy living, and to the educational efficiency of that greatest source of all wealth—the British men and women who compose the Empire. The human element has been ignored, and human needs have been neglected. In vain has the poet sung— How poor, how rich, how abject, how divine, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! Midway from nothing to the Deity ! Human beings are infinitely more complex than Dreadnoughts or steamships or machinery or plant and mechanical utilities, and, being more complex, ought to receive the greater care and attention. Man is of the earth, earthly, but has genius and capacities that are of the heavens, heavenly. That great statesman, Gladstone, said: "Man is the crowning wonder of creation, and the study of his nature the noblest study the world affords." Emerson has said: " Man is a part of the universe made alive." Aristotle said, more than 2000 years ago: " Man is the metre of all things; the hand is the instrument and the mind is the form of forms.'" When this great world's war is ended we shall have to face an entirely ...