NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1919
Copyright, 1919, by
The Century Co.
Published, September, 1919
TO
MY SON BERNARD
PREFACE
I am beginning a book with what sounds like a very ambitious title.
I wish to say at once that I have no qualifications to discuss political, historical or economic matters. I leave to the scholars who are versed in these redoubtable questions the task of explaining, skilfully and definitely, the great misery that has befallen our time.
I thus at the same time renounce most of the opportunities and obligations of my title.