Therein lies one of the greatest hopes for the salvaging of civilization, though Britain's other problem of rescuing her population from degenerative tendencies due to industrialism is as clamant for solution if the world's peace is to develop. That industry should spread, that every people should maintain an agricultural background, and that the peoples of Europe should find means to co-operate in matters of imports from the tropics, transport arrangements, and labour conditions, must be the hope of all who think of the future seriously, even if this means the discarding of ambitions of power which in less critical times disguised themselves under the cloak of patriotism. This does not mean the destruction of patriotism, but rather its ennoblement into a passion for the well-being and the health of future generations of the people, for the enrichment of each heritage of language, literature, tradition, and art by active effort, and for the growth of that toleration which is the accompaniment of self-control and its attendant liberty and peace.
[NOTE.—The writer wishes to express his most sincere thanks to his friends and fellow workers in the fields of research concerned, especially to Miss R. M. Fleming and Mr. H. J. E. Peake, and the late Professor V. Giuffrida-Ruggeri.]
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Among the most important general reference works one must mention the chief encyclopaedias, Reclus's Géographie universelle (also in English), the International Geography, the Dictionnaire de Géographie universelle (V. de S. Martin). Ratzel's Anthropogeographie and Brunhes's La Géographie humaine and Géographie humaine de la France should also be mentioned here. Bowman, The New World, has a fine collection of maps relating to the political resettlement of Europe.
On Race Questions the standard book is W. Z. Ripley's famous work, The Races of Europe, supplemented by G. Sergi's Europa in Italian and by a number of papers by Keith, Parsons, Peake, Fleure, and others in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute during the last ten years. Dr. Haddon and Mrs. Quiggin have issued a valuable revision of Keane's Man, Past and Present. Déchelette's Archéologie is the standard work in its field and may be supplemented from Burkitt's Prehistory and Macalister's Archaeology.
On Languages and their Distribution the student may begin by consulting A. Meillet's Les Langues dans l'Europe nouvelle and L. Dominian on Frontiers of Language and Nationality in Europe. From these books a bibliography can be compiled to suit the student's purpose.
The evolution of social conditions in Europe is so complex that it has not as yet received synthetic treatment, but some tentative efforts are useful if read critically. Among them one may note the files of La Science sociale and Demolins's Comment la route crée le type social, Guizot's Histoire de la Civilisation en Europe, Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, his Fields, Factories, and Workshops, and his Memoirs of a Revolutionist, as well as Jenks's works, such as the little History of Politics, and Geddes's Cities in Evolution.
It is impossible to give an adequate list of books on special regions, but the following will be found of value for various parts of the Continent involved in the recent treaties: