The Effect of Education and Legislation on Trade

Abstract

IN his second presidential address to the Society of Chemical Industry at its annual meeting held in Bradford, Mr. Levinstein again addressed himself to the subject of education. He thinks that almost too much importance has been attached to education as being the only factor which has caused the industrial progress and superiority, in certain classes of merchandise, of Germany in comparison with this country. Attention is therefore directed to other considerations which he considers have also to be taken into account, such as the unification of the various German States after the Franco-German war, which, of course, gave an internal free trade to the German nation, the nationalisation of the railways and canals, and the protective patent laws.