Mankind in the Making (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Mankind in the Making States. To that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of reunion, is no more than sentimental dreaming. We have to get into line, and that we cannot do while over here and over there men hold themselves bound by old party formulae, by loyalties and institutions, that are becoming, that have become, provincial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad project of this book - the discussion of the quality of the average birth and of the average home, the edu cational scheme, the suggestions for the organization of literature and a common language, the criticism of polling and the jury system, and the ideal of a Republic with an apparatus of honour - is, I submit, addressed to, and could be adopted by, any English reading and English-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the abandonment of Rousseau and anarchic de mocracy is more complete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quality but of degree. And even the appendix, which at a hasty glance may seem to be no more than the discussion of British parochial boundaries, does indeed develop prin ciples of primary importance in the fundamental schism of American politics between the local State government and the. Central power. So much of apology and explanation I owe to the reader, to the contemporary specialist, and to myself. These papers were first published in the British Fort nightly Review and in the American Cosmopolitan. Inthe latter periodical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publication produced a con siderable correspondence, which has been of very great service in the final revision. These papers have in deed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very con siderable amount of genuine criticism in the British press. Nothing, I think, could witness more effectu ally to the demand for such discussions of general principle, to the need felt for some nuclear matter to crystallize upon at the present time, however poor its quality, than this fact. Here I can only thank the writers collectively, and call their attention to the more practical gratitude of my frequently modified text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.