The Citizen and Society
First Principles of their Relationship
"THE GREAT ILLUSION" AND
PUBLIC OPINION
AMERICA
"New York Times," March 12, 1911.
"A book which has compelled thought; a book full of real ideas deserves the welcome it has received. The author is enjoying the almost unlimited praise of his contemporaries, expressed or indicated by many men of eminence and influence, by countless reviewers who have lately hungered for a hero to worship.
"Moreover ... it certainly makes for genuine æsthetic pleasure, and that is all most of us ask of a book."
"The Evening Post," Chicago (Mr. Floyd Dell), February 17, 1911.
"The book, being read, does not simply satisfy curiosity; it disturbs and amazes. It is not, as one would expect, a striking expression of some familiar objections to war. It is instead—it appears to be—a new contribution to thought, a revolutionary work of the first importance, a complete shattering of conventional ideas about international politics; something corresponding to the epoch-making 'Origin of Species' in the realm of biology.