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To determine where, when, how, and wherefore European social theory hit upon the formula of “the True, the Good, and the Beautiful,” and how its structural position as a skeleton for the theory of action has changed.

Genealogy, library research, and unusually good fortune were used to trace back the origin of what was to become a ubiquitous phrase, and to reconstruct the debates that made deploying the term seem important to writers.

The triad, although sometimes used accidentally in the renaissance, assumed a key structural place with a rise of Neo-Platonism in the eighteenth century associated with a new interest in providing a serious analysis of taste. It was a focus on taste that allowed the Beautiful to assume a position that was structurally homologous to those of the True and the Good, long understood as potential parallels. Although the first efforts were ones that attempted to emphasize the unification of the human spirit, the triad, once formulated, was attractive to faculties theorists more interested in decomposing the soul. They seized upon the triad as corresponding to an emerging sense of a tripartition of the soul. Finally, the members of the triad became re-understood as values, now as orthogonal dimensions.

This seems to be the first time the story of the development of the triad – one of the most ubiquitous architectonics in social thought – has been told.

In a paper to the Institute of Marine Engineers in London on 14th November, Dr. P. E. A. Borgeaud (Technical Director, Diesel Engine Department, Sulzer Brothers Ltd., Winterthur) presented some detailed developments in the RND range of Sulzer slow‐speed Diesel engines which, a few years ago superseded the RD series. The main difference in the new range was in the super‐charging arrangement: pulse system for RD and constant pressure system for RND. Service experiences have caused various refinements and improvements, and in connection with bearings, the author had this to say.

CLAIMED to overcome the difficulties resulting from the presence of oil in refrigerating circuits usually associated with conventional piston‐type compressors, a new oil‐free refrigerant compressor has recently been developed by Sulzer Brothers, of Winterthur, Switzerland.

SEVEN years of research and experiment by Sulzer Brothers, of Winterthur, Switzerland, has led to the development of a special diesel engine piston ring assembly embodying a detector component functioning automatically to measure and indicate early phases of ring wear without loss of engine running time incurred by normal inspection routine.

Careful integration of robot, end‐effectors, peripheral hardware and software are crucial to successful robot applications.