ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Published, April, 1922

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MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prefatory Note

This little volume is composed of four lectures which I gave at Amherst College in 1916 on the Clark Foundation. They are reproduced as delivered except for minor changes and for a revision of the fourth lecture in the light of recent political experience. The reasons for occasional repetitions are therefore apparent.

New Milford, Conn.,
October 5, 1921.

CHARLES A. BEARD.

Contents

I The Doctrines of the Philoso-

phers

II Economic Groups and the Struc-
ture of the State

III The Doctrine of Political Equal-

ity

IV The Contradiction and the Out-

come

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