Effects of Machinery on Wages. By J. Shield Nicholson. (Swan
Sonnenschein and Co.)—The Edinburgh Professor is no more dogmatic than his Cambridge colleague, and, rather increases one's disposition to think that as a science, Political Economy is coming to an end, and that your Political Economy professor is a gentle- man, with views on social questions, who endeavours to discuss them philosophically. He, too, throws over scientific method and scientific results, and resorts to discussions on law and morality. But chairs of Political Economy were not created for lectures on morals. If our professors find the facts of economics too com- plicated for scientific treatment, or do not like the results to which scientific treatment appears to lead, had we not better abandon the chairs ? With two Established Churches and any number of professors of Moral Philosophy, surely the study of morals is sufficiently endowed without them.
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