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PROBLEMS of government and citizenship in the modern world were discussed by Mr. Walter Elliot, the Minister of Agriculture, in his rectorial address as Rector of the University of Aberdeen on January 18. Government to-day, he said, is passing through a great transformation both at home and abroad. Governments and States are no longer merely geographical or political units, but economic units which every kind of intercourse has to take into consideration. Production is becoming decentralised; international trade less and less an interchange of specialised lines of production and more and more a competition in similar lines. The powers of modern science tend to make it feasible for specialised lines to be produced anywhere in the world, or to be replaced by others just as good; hence the national unit has become possible, although not necessarily desirable.
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The Endless Adventure of Government. Nature 133, 130 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133130b0
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