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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are typically linked with the foundations of political economy, while at the same time, Locke’s teaching is regarded as differing substantively from that of Hobbes. Locke, in fact, differs from Hobbes on only one substantive issue, that of the political regime most compatible with a commercial republic. Recognising Hobbes’ preference for monarchy as a deficiency in his natural law teaching, Locke was able to establish that teaching on firmer ground than had been possible for Hobbes. Moreover, Locke’s more prudent presentation of this new teaching, which decisively rejected the previous tradition of Western thought, significantly advanced its acceptance. In the most important aspect of Hobbes’ thought, that of his application of the method of the new mathematical sciences to the study of human nature, Locke is in complete agreement with his predecessor.

After boom days in the Industrial Revolution and 1920's West Cumberland hit hard times. Now this special development area looks for a much brighter future, with improved roads, new industrial estates and keen, reliable workers Report by Richard Brooks; photographs by Colin Porter.

Aarhus Kommunes Biblioteker (Teknisk Bibliotek), Ingerslevs Plads 7, Aarhus, Denmark. Representative: V. NEDERGAARD PEDERSEN (Librarian).

Optimism is running high over the long‐awaited resurgence of the machine‐tool industry. But one leading manufacturer has warned that the ‘boom’ is merely a return to semi‐normal conditions after the worst depression for 40 years. And in its present shrunken state is the industry capable of riding another recession? Roger Eglin reports.

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Metabrasive hosts foundry executives The Bilston based steel shot and grit manufacturers, Metabrasive Ltd, played host to a party of senior foundry executives from the Southern England and West Midlands Branches of the British Foundry Association (BFA) last month. The party was led by Mr. Norman Gledhill, the newly appointed director of the Association, and included Mr. W. M. Sutherland, chief executive of METCON which represents a group of trade associations including BFA, in areas of trade affairs, labour relations and training.

The next month or two behind us and this decade will have passed, to merge in the drab background of the post‐war years, part of the pattern of frustration, failure and fear. The ‘swinging sixties’ some called it, but to an older and perhaps slightly jaundiced eye, the only swinging seemed to be from one crisis to another, like the monkey swinging from bough to bough in his home among the trees; the ‘swingers’ among men also have their heads in the clouds! In the seemingly endless struggle against inflation since the end of the War, it would be futile to fail to see that the country is in retreat all the time. One can almost hear that shaft of MacLeodian wit christening the approaching decade as the ‘sinking seventies’, but it may not be as bad as all that, and certainly not if the innate good sense and political soundness of the British gives them insight into their perilous plight.