This article deals with questions with which I have been concerned for
over sixty years but which I would not have been able to write withou
t the invaluable help of my life-long friend Dr. Tom Soper. He not onl
y edited various drafts of the article itself but contributed many ori
ginal ideas and insights and generally influenced its contents. I also
wish to thank my secretary Mrs Jackie Finlay, without whose help and
constant encouragement the article would not have been written at all.
I also wish to thank Miss Joan Kennedy and her staff for their great
personal helpfulness to me.