¹ Smiley, Donald V., “The Case against the Canadian Charter of Human Rights,” this Journal, II, 3 (Sept. 1969), 277–91Google Scholar; Easton, David, ‘The New Revolution in Political Science,” American Political Science Review, LXIII, 4 (Dec. 1969), 1051–61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

² See my “The Government and Politics of a Developing University,” Review of Politics, 31, 3 (July 1969), 291–311.

³ Colony to Nation: A History of Canada (3rd ed., Toronto, 1957), 354.

⁴ For example, Rich, E. E., Hudson's Bay Company, 1670–1870 (Toronto, 1960), II, 901Google Scholar; and Stanley, George F. G., The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions (London, 1936), 67Google Scholar. According to Healy, W. J., Women of Red River (Winnipeg, 1923), 237Google Scholar, in 1870 there were 5,757 French-speaking persons of mixed blood, 4,083 English-speaking persons of mixed blood, and 1,565 whites in the Red River settlement.

⁵ Thistlethwaite, Frank, “Migration from Europe Overseas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” in Moller, Herbert, ed., Population Movements in Modern European History (New York, 1964)Google Scholar, argues that to treat overseas migration as an essay in the peopling of the United States may provide a false perspective (p. 74) and continues by saying that it “is in a very broad sense to be treated as a major, but subordinate, aspect of European population growth and European industrialization. We are, again, a long way from the American fever” (p. 89). English-speaking persons probably numbered under five million in 1500. By 1900 they numbered 129 million and controlled one-third of the land area of the earth. Harold F. Dorn, “World Population Growth: An International Dilemma,” in Moller, Population Movements, 135.

⁶ Somit, Albert and Tanenhaus, Joseph, in The Development of Political Science: From Burgess to Behavioralism (Boston, 1967)Google Scholar, state that Leacock's, Elements of Political Science (1906)Google Scholar was one of the four most widely used texts in American universities (p. 64, n.1).

⁷ This may explain why Eckstein, Harry and Apter, David E. have written, “The field of comparative politics has a long and honorable past… Yet specialists in comparative politics seem today to be preoccupied, almost paradoxically, with questions we associate not with the maturity but with the infancy of a field of inquiry…” in Comparative Politics: A Reader (New York, 1963), 3.Google Scholar

⁸ Anyone who has translated a book can attest to the following remarks by the reviewer of Elio Vittorini, Le città del mondo: “Translation is a rough-holed sieve through which a country's best writers often cannot be pressed. And so, abroad, a lopsided idea frequently gets about of writers whose style is easy, whose ideas are palatable, who slot into other cultures, who are interchangeable, adaptable, unlocal, internationalists, common marketeers. Those who nourish a country's ideas are often too deeply rooted to transplant, too much a part of the landscape to be noticed, camouflaged by their own intimacy with their birthplace and consequent uneasiness elsewhere.” Times Literary Supplement, Feb. 5, 1970, p. 127. Even in English, terms like “conservative” have different meanings in Canada, Britain, and the United States.

⁹ Easton, “The New Revolution in Political Science,” 1057.

¹⁰ “Spencer's philosophy was admirably suited to the American scene. It was scientific in derivation and comprehensive in scope.” Hofstadter, Richard, Social Darwinism in American Thought (Boston, 1955), 31Google Scholar. Could it be said of Canada, as it has been said of Europe's reaction to Herbert Spencer, that “only sections of the middle classes spoke the language of progress”? Crick, Bernard, The American Science of Politics (London, 1959), 69.Google Scholar

¹¹ Myrdal went on to say: “It is unfortunate that this cornerstone in our edifice of basic hypotheses, like many of our other generalizations, has to be constructed upon the author's observations. It is desirable that scientifically controlled, quantitative knowledge be substituted for impressionistic judgments as soon as possible.” An American Dilemma (New York, 1944), I, 61. Twenty years later survey research findings replaced “author's observations” in many expensive studies, but the conclusions all too frequently could hardly be said to meet Myrdal's ideal of “scientifically controlled, quantitative knowledge.” Fortunately for the researchers the studies are usually not amenable to replication.

¹² “Of R. R. Ramsey, a brilliant student, Keynes wrote: ‘It is a remarkable example of how the young can take up the story at the point to which the previous generation had brought it a little out of breath, and then proceed forward without taking more than about a week thoroughly to digest everything which had been done up to date and to understand with apparent ease stuff which to anyone even ten years older seemed hopelessly difficult.’” Harris, Seymour E., John Maynard Keynes: Economist and Policy-maker (New York, 1955), 17Google Scholar. Professor Harris is presumably referring to Frank Ramsey. I have been unable to trace the quotation, which Harris notes as being in Harrod's Life, passim.

¹³ The English Utilitarians (2nd rev. ed., Oxford, 1958), 145. “The utilitarian doctrine, established by Hume on foundations laid by Hobbes, is the greatest English contribution to moral and political philosophy… Utilitarianism is destroyed and no part of it left standing. But it has not had a successor. There is today in England no one system that enjoys anything like the predominance once enjoyed in intellectual circles by utilitarianism… But the utilitarians were once in England what the Marxists were for a few decades in Germany…”

¹⁴ The Analysis of Political Systems (London, 1959).

¹⁵ Huntington, Samuel P., in Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven, Conn., 1968)Google Scholar, suggests that the pattern state in the seventeenth century was absolute monarchy, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries parliamentary government, and in the twentieth century the one-party state (p. 137).

¹⁶ Hammond, J. L., Gladstone and the Irish Nation (London, 1938Google Scholar, reprinted 1964), especially 202. Compare the list of subjects there with those enumerated in section 91 of the BNA Act.

¹⁷ “Reflections on Violence,” New York Review of Books, XII, 4 (Feb. 27, 1969), 22. like many scholars in the United States, Miss Arendt tends to forget the English revolution. See Hill, Christopher, The Century of Revolution, 1603–1714 (Edinburgh, 1961)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The British governing classes did not: Bertrand Russell's maternal grandmother used to visit the widow of the Young Pretender in Paris.

¹⁸ While the number of professors quadrupled between 1956 and 1967, the humanities and social sciences expanded more rapidly than the natural sciences, which expanded threefold. The most spectacular increase appears to have been in political science, from twenty university teachers to 308 in eleven years. See Hettich, Walter P., Growth and Characteristics of University Teaching Staff in the Social Sciences and Humanities, 1956–7 to 1967–8 (Canada Council, mimeo., May 1969), Table I, 6–7.Google Scholar

¹⁹ “Growth in applied social science lagged behind the increase in the ‘pure’ disciplines… a relative retardation of business schools… the educational gap between Canadian managers and their American counterparts is greater than the gap for any other professional group.” Ibid., p. 11.

²⁰ Some years ago, when the Caucus for a New Political Science began to make its influence felt in the American Political Science Association, Time noted that in recent years APSA meetings had become as interesting and relevant to concerned citizens as plumbers’ conventions.

²¹ “She had the wholly admirable view that a person who intends to write on an academic subject should first read up the literature, so I gravely informed her that all the advances in non-Euclidean geometry had been made in ignorance of the previous literature, and even because of that ignorance. This caused her ever afterwards to regard me as a mere farceur.” The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Toronto, 1967), I, 131.

²² A History of Economic Doctrines from the Time of the Physiocrats to the Present Day (2nd ed., London, 1948), 4.