64/^1 overnments can do so little and prevent so little vJ nowadays. Power has passed from the hands of statesmen, but I should be very much puzzled to say into whose hands it has passed. It is all pure drifting. This observation was made by Lord Salisbury in 1895. Similar observations could be and sometimes are being made today about our national, state, and local governments and about various institutions. Officials who think
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Martin Meyerson (1971) studied this question.