The Place of Prejudice in Modern Civilization (Prejudice and Politics): being the Substance of a Rectorial Address to the Students of Aberdeen University

Abstract

THE gist of Sir Arthur Keith's rectorial address at Aberdeen is expressed in its concluding sentence: “Under the control of reason, prejudice has to be given a place in the regulation of human affairs”. If we understand what the distinguished author means by ‘prejudice’, his thesis is so reasonable that we must begin by lifting our hands to heaven for the publication of the address in its entirety. For by the perusal of isolated extracts we had been regretfully led, like many others, to dissociate ourselves in private thought and conversation from the rector's position, whereas after reading the whole we wish we had given the address ourselves—it is so well put. Moreover, in its insistence on the value of feeling, the address is a useful counteractive to the partiality or abstractness of science.

The Place of Prejudice in Modern Civilization (Prejudice and Politics): being the Substance of a Rectorial Address to the Students of Aberdeen University.

By Sir Arthur Keith. Pp. 54. (London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1931.) 2s. 6d. net.