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EVEN the most strictly scientific mind may, at the approach of spring, be allowed to wander somewhat out of the old and beaten track—indeed the scientific mind should be constantly on the search for new tracks—to indulge in flights of imagination and of hope, especially of hope. It is the season of new hopes, new resolves, new thoughts, and though the hardened cynic may smile at their apparent futility, yet, however often we fall and fail, it is best to go on trying and keep the shining portals of hope, far distant though they be, still in view. Dum spiro, spero. So, in our title we have included hope, even in connexion with unemployment, and thus very flagrantly broken that excellent rule of the strictest school of economics which would rigidly exclude from consideration everything outside the indicative mood, and certainly everything appertaining to the optative mood (vide Prof. Florence in his recent work on statistical method in economics).
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CASS, W. Unemployment and Hope. Nature 125, 225–228 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125225a0
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