14 JANUARY 1922, Page 25

- Science Progress, edited by Sir Ronald Ross, is a

most useful quarterly review of scientific work and thought. In the January number (Murray, 6s. net) we find an article entitled " Scientific Politics. I. Self-Determination," which politicians should read. In this article the editor points out the folly of the catchword-- " self-determination," and illustrates his meaning from Upper Silesia and from Ireland, which, he says, is " manifestly not a political unit at all," since Ulster is wholly distinct from the South and West. He goes on to contend that politics ought to be treated as a science, and that the " primitive and picturesque methods " of the past will not suffice for the more complex society of the present day.