This elementary fact has of late been recognized by most modern parliaments in the payment of their members. Government should be recognized as a profession and rewarded as such. The late Mr. W. T. Stead’s alternative to Democracy was an “Autocracy tempered by Assassination.” There is another alternative, viz., Bureaucracy tempered by Emigration. It is the system practised in such institutions as Proprietary clubs. Members are not worried to elect committees and honorary officers. If they are satisfied with the management they remain in the club. If they are not, they join some other club. The same process on a larger scale led to the foundation of the American colonies and the United States. It is largely at work at the present day, but is complicated by all sorts of restrictions and difficulties, the divergence of languages being one of the most serious obstacles. As intercommunication increases, the natural tendency to go where one can be happiest――_ubi bene, ibi patria_――will no doubt come increasingly into action, and will be a wholesome check upon the extravagances of cranky legislatures. But I doubt whether there is any tendency at all of governments to become less effective. Almost every advance of science and invention makes the maintenance of public order and security easier. The tracing of criminals by wireless telegraphy and broadcasting is a striking illustration of the aid science can give to the police. Almost everywhere science and invention are on the side of the established order. Although every researcher and inventor is, in a sense, a revolutionary, in that his work is likely to produce immense changes in human activity, his general outlook tends towards aristocracy, since he is imbued with the sense of the immense differences in the personal equipment of individuals, which no equalitarian sentimentality will ever wipe out. _The Farther Outlook._――So far, we have looked but little ahead, a century at most. The prophet’s task becomes more arduous as the time is extended. Historical guidance fails us. Familiar landmarks get blurred and disappear. We are in danger of getting lost in a bog of unreal speculation. Yet the task has often been essayed, and it is necessary and desirable that it be essayed now and again. Let me make my own humble attempt, in the light of what knowledge I have acquired and what great thoughts I have encountered in many lands and languages, and in discussions with many thinkers. We must extend our time scale from centuries to millennia, and from millennia to geological eras. Above all, we must take into account not only the rapid advance of science and invention, but the constant _acceleration_ of that advance.