The programme which I have sketched out is certainly not too bold or comprehensive for the British race.  If a hundredth part of the organising skill which the Japanese and the Russians are showing in the great war now in progress were shown by ourselves as citizens in our great civil war against disease and dirt, poverty and overcrowding, we could not only build many new cities on the best models, but could also bring our old towns into line with the new and better order.  Prof.  Geddes wishes well, I know, to the Garden City Association, a propagandist body, and to its first child, the Garden City Company; and I am sure you will all unite with me in the hope that the best and most lasting success may crown the generous gift of Mr. Carnegie of L500,000 to the City of Dunfermline, and reward the efforts of the Trustees and of Prof.  Geddes to make, by the application of modern [Page:  122] skill, science and art, the ancient city of Dunfermline a centre of sweetness and light, stimulating us all to higher and yet higher efforts to secure civic, national and imperial well-being.

Mr. C.H.  GRINLING said: 

Like most of the audience, doubtless, he came not to speak but to draw ever fresh inspiration from Prof.  Geddes.  But there was one aspect of the subject he would like to bring out and emphasise.  He referred to the sociological institute, which, under the name of the Outlook Tower, had grown up in connection with the School of Sociology which Prof.  Geddes had founded and developed in Edinburgh.  That institute was at once an organisation for teaching and for research, for social education, and for civic action.  It was, in fact, a concrete and working application of the principle indicated in the paper as the very foundation of Civics—­“social survey for social service.”  And, seeing that the Outlook Tower was an institution designed in every respect for application to any given locality, he urged the Sociological Society to advocate its general extension, so that no region should be without its own sociological institute or Outlook Tower.

If one individual could accomplish so much, what could not be accomplished by the sociologists of our day who would concentrate themselves, each on his own locality, not necessarily to do the work, but to give the inspiration which would call out the work of collecting just that material which Prof.  Geddes suggested all through his paper was one of the great needs of our time?  And so one hoped that papers of this kind would not merely lead to discussion, but to workers accumulating results of this kind, giving the inspiration to others, and thus laying up treasures for the sociologists of the future for their interpretation.  Thus, the Sociological Society should be not only the one scientific society in constant touch with all the leading brains over the country, but it should be an inspiration, as Prof.  Geddes has himself been, to groups of workers everywhere for just the kind of work which the Sociological Society has been founded to develop.