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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1933, Page 4

<<v- E h a ve l.'.tc’y- heard much vague talk about a body of doctrine—if that is not too serious a phrase for it—called technocracy, a name which seems to suggest that the muddled business of ruling the world should be taken out of the hands of statesen and entrusted to the cleverer fingers of the technical expert. I have «een that u-ged as a way out of our distresses. We should, I think, pause

before exchanging the frying-pan for tile lire,” writes '.Sir Alfred Ewing in the Hibbcrt Journal on “Science and lyA’inl Problems.” “It is easy to •discover in tlu politician material for criticism, but 1 recognise that lie should have, and often dees have, qualities different from those that make for success in the pursuit of science and its' applications. I see no prospect of advantage in taking men from jobs which they do well) jobs that require a special kind of aptitude trained along narrow lines, and turning them instead cf tasks that demand a different temper and a .wide) ontlook. It is true that the scientific mart’s habit in his own .subject is to take a dispassionate view, and there ire public questieijs in which that would be of no small service. But he is little likely to be successful in gauging and controlling the emotions cf the crowd. I don’t think that an eye accustomed, so to speak, to the microscope is best fitted for a comprehensive survey of international relations, or even for a discerning vision of national affairs.