PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION Demy 8vo. Extracts from Early Reviews 6s. net. "At length the war has given us a much bigger and deeper book of prophecy, and the man who has written it is the ablest and most unpopular figure in contemporary England. It will outlive the war by many a year and decade. Mr. Russell has written a big and living book. We question whether a more brilliant statement of the Liberal philosophy has been written since the last world war created Liberalism."-The Nation. "Mr. Bertrand Russell has written a thoroughly mischievous book, and it is all the more mischievous because, being a cultivated man, he has at his service a felicitous literary style which may possess some attractions for the unwary minds of prejudiced partisans and loose thinkers."-LORD CROMER in the Spectator. "Essentially a discussion rather of principles than of any definite programme, being an examination and comparison of the possessive and the 'creative impulses.”—Times. "Mr. Russell's principles are, with few exceptions, of the very best."-Westminister Gazette. "Mr. Russell.. brings no comfort to the enemy, whom he severely trounces Land and W LONDON: crime against civilization." ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. "Production without possession, action without self-assertion, LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. 1 Reelow. PREFATORY NOTE THIS book is an attempt to compress into a small compass a discussion which would require many volumes for its adequate treatment. The author is conscious that it might have been greatly improved by wider reading and more exhaustive study, but time has been lacking. It has been necessary to complete the writing of it hastily in the last days before a period of imprisonment, and it is hoped that, under these circumstances, the reader will view with a lenient eye such marks of insufficient care as he may discover. It would have been even more difficult than it has been to bring the work to completion amid the pressure of unavoidable business, but for the assistance of my friend Mr. Hilderic Cousens, who has supplied me with facts on many points which I had not time to investigate thoroughly myself. LONDON, April 1918. |