TABLE OF CONTENTS

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PREFACE v
I. THE AIMS OF EDUCATION—A PLEA FOR REFORM
(Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association,
January, 1916.)
1
II. TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND ITS RELATION TO
SCIENCE AND LITERATURE

(Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association,
January, 1917.)
29
III. A POLYTECHNIC IN WAR-TIME
(Address at the Prize Distribution, Borough Polytechnic
Institute, Southwark, February, 1917.)
58
IV. THE MATHEMATICAL CURRICULUM
(Presidential Address to the London Branch of the
Mathematical Association, 1912.)
69
V. THE PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS IN RELATION
TO ELEMENTARY TEACHING
(Paper read in the Educational Section of the International
Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge,
1912.)
92
VI. THE ORGANISATION OF THOUGHT
(Presidential Address to Section A, British Association,
Newcastle, 1916; also read subsequently before the
Aristotelian Society.)
105
VII. THE ANATOMY OF SOME SCIENTIFIC IDEAS 134
VIII. SPACE, TIME, AND RELATIVITY
(Paper read to Section A at the Manchester Meeting of
Section A, 1915; also, with the appended Commentary,
read subsequently before the Aristotelian
Society.)
191