HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

MCMXIV

COPYRIGHT 1914, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PUBLISHED APRIL, 1914

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CONTENTS

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The Coming of Blériot[1]
My First Flight[9]
Off the Chain[17]
Of the New Reign[25]
Will the Empire Live?[38]
The Labour Unrest[50]
Social Panaceas[94]
Syndicalism or Citizenship?[102]
The Great State[112]
The Common Sense of Warfare[155]
The Contemporary Novel[173]
The Philosopher’s Public Library[199]
About Chesterton and Belloc[205]
About Sir Thomas More[214]
Traffic and Rebuilding[219]
The So-called Science of Sociology[224]
Divorce[242]
The Schoolmaster and the Empire[255]
The Endowment of Motherhood[268]
Doctors[275]
An Age of Specialisation[281]
Is there a People?[287]
The Disease of Parliaments[293]
The American Population[321]
The Possible Collapse of Civilisation[383]
The Ideal Citizen[390]
Some Possible Discoveries[397]
The Human Adventure[409]