CONTENTS
NUMBER I. | |
WHAT MEN OF LETTERS SAY | |
| Page | |
| COMMON SENSE ABOUT THE WAR | [11] |
| By George Bernard Shaw | |
| SHAW'S NONSENSE ABOUT BELGIUM | [60] |
| By Arnold Bennett | |
| BENNETT STATES THE GERMAN CASE | [63] |
| By George Bernard Shaw | |
| FLAWS IN SHAW'S LOGIC | [65] |
| By Cunninghame Graham | |
| EDITORIAL COMMENT ON SHAW | [66] |
| SHAW EMPTY OF GOOD SENSE | [68] |
| By Christabel Pankhurst | |
| COMMENT BY READING OF SHAW | [73] |
| OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON | [76] |
| By George Bernard Shaw | |
| A GERMAN LETTER TO G. BERNARD SHAW | [80] |
| By Herbert Eulenberg | |
| BRITISH AUTHORS DEFEND ENGLAND'S WAR | [82] |
| With Facsimile Signatures | |
| THE FOURTH OF AUGUST--EUROPE AT WAR | [87] |
| By H. G. Wells | |
| IF THE GERMANS RAID ENGLAND | [89] |
| By H. G. Wells | |
| SIR OLIVER LODGE'S COMMENT | [92] |
| WHAT THE GERMAN CONSCRIPT THINKS | [93] |
| By Arnold Bennett | |
| FELIX ADLER'S COMMENT | [95] |
| WHEN PEACE IS SERIOUSLY DESIRED | [97] |
| By Arnold Bennett | |
| BARRIE AT BAY: WHICH WAS BROWN? | [100] |
| An Interview on the War | |
| A CREDO FOR KEEPING FAITH | [102] |
| By John Galsworthy | |
| HARD BLOWS, NOT HARD WORDS | [103] |
| By Jerome K. Jerome | |
| "AS THEY TESTED OUR FATHERS" | [106] |
| By Rudyard Kipling | |
| KIPLING AND "THE TRUCE OF THE BEAR" | [107] |
| ON THE IMPENDING CRISIS | [107] |
| By Norman Angell | |
| WHY ENGLAND CAME TO BE IN IT | [108] |
| By Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
| SOUTH AFRICA'S BOERS AND BRITONS | [125] |
| By H. Rider Haggard | |
| CAPT. MARK HAGGARD'S DEATH IN BATTLE | [128] |
| By H. Rider Haggard | |
| AN ANTI-CHRISTIAN WAR | [129] |
| By Robert Bridges | |
| ENGLISH ARTISTS' PROTEST | [130] |
| TO ARMS! | [132] |
| By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| CONAN DOYLE ON BRITISH MILITARISM | [140] |
| THE NEED OF BEING MERCILESS | [144] |
| By Maurice Maeterlinck | |
| LETTERS TO DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER | [146] |
| By Baron d'Estournelles de Constant | |
| THE VITAL ENERGIES OF FRANCE | [153] |
| By Henri Bergson | |
| FRANCE THROUGH ENGLISH EYES | [153] |
| With Rene Bazin's Appreciation | |
| THE SOLDIER OF 1914 | [156] |
| By Rene Doumic | |
| GERMANY'S CIVILIZED BARBARISM | [160] |
| By Emile Boutroux | |
| THE GERMAN RELIGION OF DUTY | [170] |
| By Gabriele Reuter | |
| A LETTER TO GERHART HAUPTMANN | [174] |
| By Romain Rolland | |
| A REPLY TO ROLLAND | [175] |
| By Gerhart Hauptmann | |
| ANOTHER REPLY TO ROLLAND | [176] |
| By Karl Wolfskehl | |
| ARE WE BARBARIANS? | [178] |
| By Gerhart Hauptmann | |
| TO AMERICANS FROM A GERMAN FRIEND | [180] |
| By Ludwig Fulda | |
| APPEAL TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD | [185] |
| By Professors of Germany | |
| APPEAL OF THE GERMAN UNIVERSITIES | [187] |
| REPLY TO THE GERMAN PROFESSORS | [188] |
| By British Scholars | |
| CONCERNING THE GERMAN PROFESSORS | [192] |
| By Frederic Harrison | |
| THE REPLY FROM FRANCE | [194] |
| By M. Yves Guyot and Prof Bellet | |
| TO AMERICANS IN GERMANY | [198] |
| By Prof. Adolf von Harnack | |
| A REPLY TO PROF. HARNACK | [201] |
| By Some British Theologians | |
| PROF. HARNACK IN REBUTTAL | [203] |
| THE CAUSES OF THE WAR | [206] |
| By Theodore Niemeyer | |
| COMMENT BY DR. MAX WALTER | [208] |
NUMBER II. | |
WHO BEGAN THE WAR AND WHY? | |
| SPEECHES BY KAISER WILHELM II. | 210 |
| THE MIGHTY FATE OF EUROPE | 219 |
| As Interpreted by Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial Chancellor. | |
| AUSTRIA-HUNGARY'S VERSION OF THE WAR | 226 |
| By Kaiser Frawz Josef and Count Berchtold | |
| A GERMAN REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE | 228 |
| Certified by Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, German ex-Colonial Secretary | |
| "TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY" | 244 |
| Attested by Thirty-four German Dignitaries | |
| SPECULATIONS ABOUT PEACE, SEPTEMBER, 1914 | 273 |
| Report by James W. Gerard, American Ambassador at Berlin, to President Wilson. | |
| FIRST WARNINGS OF EUROPE'S PERIL | 277 |
| Speeches by British Ministers | |
| GREAT BRITAIN'S MOBILIZATION | 294 |
| Measures Taken Throughout the Empire Upon the Outbreak of War | |
| SUMMONS OF THE NATION TO ARMS | 308 |
| British People Roused by Their Leaders | |
| TEACHINGS OF GEN. VON BERNHARDI | 343 |
| By Viscount Bryce | |
| ENTRANCE OF FRANCE INTO THE WAR | 350 |
| By President Poincare and Premier Viviani | |
| RUSSIA TO HER ENEMY | 358 |
| "THE FACTS ABOUT BELGIUM" | 365 |
| Statement Issued by the Belgian Legation at Washington | |
| BELGO-BRITISH PLOT ALLEGED BY GERMANY | 369 |
| Statement Issued by German Embassy at Washington, Oct. 13. | |
| ATROCITIES OF THE WAR | 374 |
| BOMBARDMENT OF RHEIMS CATHEDRAL | 392 |
| Protest Issued to Neutral Powers from French Foreign Office, Bordeaux, Sept. 21. | |
| THE SOCIALISTS' PART | 397 |
NUMBER III. | |
WHAT AMERICANS SAY TO EUROPE | |
| IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CIVILIZATION | 413 |
| Argued by James M. Beck | |
| CRITICS DISPUTE MR. BECK | 431 |
| DEFENSE OF THE DUAL ALLIANCE--REPLY | 438 |
| By Dr. Edmund von Mach | |
| WHAT GLADSTONE SAID ABOUT BELGIUM | 448 |
| By George Louis Beer | |
| FIGHT TO THE BITTER END | 451 |
| An Interview with Andrew Carnegie | |
| WOMAN AND WAR--"Shot, Tell His Mother" (Poem) | 458 |
| By W.E.P. French, Captain, U.S. Army | |
| THE WAY TO PEACE | 459 |
| An Interview with Jacob H. Schiff | |
| PROF. MATHER ON MR. SCHIFF | 464 |
| THE ELIOT-SCHIFF LETTERS | 465 |
| By Jacob H. Schiff and Charles W. Eliot | |
| LA CATHEDRALE (Poem Translated by Frances C. Fay) | 472 |
| By Edmond Rostand | |
| PROBABLE CAUSES AND OUTCOME OF THE WAR | 473 |
| Series of Five Letters by Charles W. Eliot, with Related Correspondence | |
| THE LORD OF HOSTS (Poem) | 501 |
| By Joseph B. Gilder | |
| A WAR OF DISHONOR | 502 |
| By David Starr Jordan | |
| MIGHT OR RIGHT | 503 |
| By John Grier Hibben | |
| JEANNE D'ARC--1914 (Poem) | 506 |
| By Alma Durant Nicholson | |
| THE KAISER AND BELGIUM (With controversial letters) | 507 |
| By John W. Burgess | |
| AMERICA'S PERIL IN JUDGING GERMANY | 515 |
| By William M. Sloane | |
| POSSIBLE PROFITS FROM WAR | 526 |
| Interview with Franklin H. Giddings | |
| "TO AMERICANS LEAVING GERMANY" | 533 |
| A German Circular | |
| GERMAN DECLARATIONS | 534 |
| By Rudolf Eucken and Ernst Haeckel | |
| THE EUCKEN AND HAECKEL CHARGES | 537 |
| By John Warbeke | |
| CONCERNING GERMAN CULTURE | 541 |
| By Brander Matthews | |
| CULTURE VS. KULTUR | 543 |
| By Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. | |
| THE TRESPASS IN BELGIUM | 545 |
| By John Grier Hibben | |
| APPORTIONING THE BLAME | 548 |
| By Arthur v. Briesen | |
| PARTING (Poem) | 553 |
| By Louise von Wetter | |
| FRENCH HATE AND ENGLISH JEALOUSY | 554 |
| By Kuno Francke | |
| IN DEFENSE OF AUSTRIA | 559 |
| By Baron L. Hengelmuller | |
| RUSSIAN ATROCITIES | 563 |
| By George Haven Putnam | |
| "THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE" | 565 |
| Interview with Nicholas Murray Butler | |
| A NEW WORLD MAP | 571 |
| By Wilhelm Ostwald | |
| THE VERDICT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE | 573 |
| By Newell Dwight Hillis | |
| TIPPERARY (Poem) | 581 |
| By John B. Kennedy | |
| AS AMERICA SEES THE WAR | 582 |
| By Harold Begbie | |
| TO MELOS, POMEGRANATE ISLE (Poem) | 587 |
| By Grace Harriet Macurdy | |
| WHAT AMERICA CAN DO | 588 |
| By Lord Channing of Wellingborough | |
| TO A COUSIN GERMAN (Poem) | 593 |
| By Adeline Adams | |
| WHAT THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS MAY BE | 594 |
| By Irving Fisher | |
| EFFECTS OF WAR ON AMERICA | 600 |
| By Roland G. Usher | |
| GERMANY OF THE FUTURE | 605 |
| Interview with M. de Lapredelle | |
| GERMANY THE AGGRESSOR | 609 |
| By Albert Sauveur | |
| MILITARISM AND CHRISTIANITY | 610 |
| By Lyman Abbott | |
| VIGIL (Poem) | 612 |
| By Hortense Flexner | |
| NIETZSCHE AND GERMAN CULTURE | 613 |
| By Abraham Solomon | |
| BELGIUM'S BITTER NEED | 614 |
| By Sir Gilbert Parker | |
NUMBER IV. | |
THE WAR AT CLOSE QUARTERS | |
| SIR JOHN FRENCH'S OWN STORY | 619 |
| Famous Dispatches of the British Commander in Chief to Lord Kitchener | |
| STORY OF THE "EYE WITNESS" | 650 |
| By Col. E.D. Swinton of the Intelligence Department of the British General Staff | |
| THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY (Poem) | 678 |
| By Edward Neville Vose | |
| THE GERMAN ENTRY INTO BRUSSELS (With Map) | 679 |
| By John Boon | |
| THE FALL OF ANTWERP | 682 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle | |
| AS THE FRENCH FELL BACK ON PARIS | 689 |
| By G. H. Perris | |
| THE RETREAT TO PARIS | 691 |
| By Philip Gibbs | |
| A ZOUAVE'S STORY | 704 |
| By Philip Gibbs | |
| WHEN WAR BURST ON ARRAS | 707 |
| By a Special Correspondent | |
| THE BATTLES IN BELGIUM (With Map) | 711 |
| By The Associated Press | |
| SEEKING WOUNDED ON BATTLE FRONT | 714 |
| By Philip Gibbs | |
| AT THE KAISER'S HEADQUARTERS | 718 |
| By Cyril Brown of The New York Times | |
| HOW THE BELGIANS FIGHT | 725 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily News | |
| A VISIT TO THE FIRING LINE IN FRANCE | 727 |
| By a Correspondent of The New York Times | |
| UNBURIED DEAD STREW LORRAINE (With Map) | 729 |
| By Philip Gibbs | |
| ALONG THE GERMAN LINES NEAR METZ | 731 |
| By The Associated Press | |
| THE SLAUGHTER IN ALSACE | 736 |
| By John H. Cox | |
| RENNENKAMPF ON THE RUSSIAN BORDER | 738 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle | |
| THE FIRST FIGHT AT LODZ (With Map) | 740 |
| By Perceval Gibbon | |
| THE FIRST INVASION OF SERBIA (With Map) | 742 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Standard | |
| THE ATTACK ON TSING-TAU | 745 |
| By Jefferson Jones | |
| THE GERMAN ATTACK ON TAHITI | 748 |
| As Told by Miss Geni La France, an Eyewitness | |
| THE BLOODLESS CAPTURE OF GERMAN SAMOA | 749 |
| By Malcolm Ross, F.R.G.S. | |
| HOW THE CRESSY SANK | 752 |
| By Edgar Rowan | |
| GERMAN STORY OF THE HELIGOLAND FIGHT | 754 |
| By a Special Correspondent of The New York Times | |
| THE SINKING OF THE CRESSY AND THE HOGUE | 755 |
| By the Senior Surviving Officers, Commander Bertram W.L. Nicholson and | |
| Commander Reginald A. Norton | |
| THE SINKING OF THE HAWKE | 757 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle | |
| THE EMDEN'S LAST FIGHT | 758 |
| By the Cable Operator at Cocos Islands | |
| CROWDS SEE THE NIGER SINK | 760 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle | |
| LIEUTENANT WEDDIGEN'S OWN STORY | 762 |
| By Herbert B. Swope and Capt. Lieut. Otto Weddigen | |
| THE SOLILOQUY OF AN OLD SOLDIER (Poem) | 764 |
| By O.C.A. Child | |
| THE EFFECTS OF WAR IN FOUR COUNTRIES | 765 |
| By Irvin S. Cobb | |
| HOW PARIS DROPPED GAYETY | 767 |
| By Anne Rittenhouse | |
| PARIS IN OCTOBER | 770 |
| From The London Times | |
| FRANCE AND ENGLAND AS SEEN IN WAR TIME | 772 |
| Interview with F. Hopkinson Smith | |
| THE HELPLESS VICTIMS | 776 |
| By Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryee | |
| A NEW RUSSIA MEETS GERMANY | 777 |
| By Perceval Gibbon | |
| BELGIAN CITIES GERMANIZED | 780 |
| By Cyril Brown of The New York Times | |
| THE BELGIAN RUIN | 786 |
| By J.H. Whitehouse, M.P. | |
| THE WOUNDED SERB | 788 |
| From The London Times | |
| SPY ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND | 790 |
| British Home Office Communication | |
| CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR | 793 |
| THE MEN OF THE EMDEN (Poem) | 816 |
| By Thomas R. Ybarra | |
NUMBER V. | |
THE NEW RUSSIA SPEAKS | |
| AN APPEAL BY RUSSIAN AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND ACTORS | 817 |
| With Their Signatures | |
| RUSSIA IN LITERATURE | 819 |
| By British Men of Letters | |
| RUSSIA AND EUROPE'S WAR | 821 |
| By Paul Vinogradoff | |
| RUSSIAN APPEAL FOR THE POLES | 825 |
| By A. Konovalov of the Russian Duma | |
| I AM FOR PEACE (Poem) | 826 |
| By Lurana Sheldon | |
| UNITED RUSSIA | 827 |
| By Peter Struve | |
| PRINCE TRUBETSKOI'S APPEAL TO RUSSIANS | 830 |
| To Help the Polish Victims of War | |
| HOW PROHIBITION CAME TO RUSSIA | 831 |
| An Interview with the Reformer Tchelisheff | |
| INFLUENCE OF THE WAR UPON RUSSIAN INDUSTRY | 834 |
| By the Russian Ministry of Commerce | |
| DECLARATION OF THE RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS | 835 |
| A RUSSIAN FINANCIAL AUTHORITY ON THE WAR | 836 |
| By Prof. Migoulin | |
| PROPOSED INTERNAL LOANS OF RUSSIA | 837 |
| (Prof. Migoulin's Plan) | |
| HOW RUSSIAN MANUFACTURERS FEEL | 838 |
| Digested from Russkia Vedomosti | |
| NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE NEEDED | 839 |
| By A. Sokolov | |
| OUR RUSSIAN ALLY | 840 |
| By Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace | |
| CONFISCATION OF GERMAN PATENTS | 849 |
| By the Russian Ministry of Commerce | |
| A RUSSIAN INCOME TAX | 850 |
| Proposed by the Ministry of Finance | |
| TOOLS OF THE RUSSIAN JUGGERNAUT | 851 |
| By M.J. Bonn | |
| FATE OF THE JEWS IN POLAND | 854 |
| By Georg Brandes | |
| COMMERCIAL TREATIES AFTER THE WAR | 863 |
| By P. Maslov | |
| PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEW OF THE WAR | 865 |
| 48 War Pictures Printed in Rotogravure | |
| PATRIOTISM AND ENDURANCE | 913 |
| The Pastoral Letter of Cardinal D.J. Mercier, Archbishop of Malines | |
| APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR BELGIUM (Poem) | 924 |
| By Thomas Hardy | |
| WITH THE GERMAN ARMY | 925 |
| By Cyril Brown | |
| STORY OF THE MAN WHO FIRED ON RHEIMS CATHEDRAL | 928 |
| RICHARD HARDING DAVIS'S COMMENT | 931 |
| THE GERMAN AIRMEN | 932 |
| GERMAN GENERALS TALK OF THE WAR | 934 |
| SWIFT REVERSAL TO BARBARISM | 939 |
| By Vance Thompson | |
| CIVIL LIFE IN BERLIN | 943 |
| From The London Times | |
| BELGIAN BOY TELLS STORY OF AERSCHOT | 945 |
| From The New York Times | |
| THE NEUTRALS (Poem) | 948 |
| By Beatrice Barry | |
| FIFTEEN MINUTES ON THE YSER | 949 |
| From The New York Times | |
| SEEING NIEUPORT UNDER SHELL FIRE | 951 |
| From The New York Times | |
| RAID ON SCARBOROUGH SEEN FROM A WINDOW | 954 |
| By Ruth Kauffmann | |
| HOW THE BARONESS HID HER HUSBAND ON A VESSEL | 956 |
| From The New York Times | |
| WARSAW SWAMPED WITH REFUGEES | 957 |
| By H.W. Bodkinson | |
| AFTER THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN GALICIA | 958 |
| From The London Times | |
| OFFICER IN BATTLE HAD LITTLE FEELING | 959 |
| By The Associated Press | |
| THE BATTLE OF NEW YEAR'S DAY | 961 |
| By Perceval Gibbon | |
| BASS'S STORY | 963 |
| From The New York Times | |
| THE WASTE OF GERMAN LIVES | 964 |
| By Perceval Gibbon | |
| THE FLIGHT INTO SWITZERLAND | 966 |
| By Ethel Therese Hugh | |
| ONCE FAIR BELGRADE IS A SKELETON CITY | 969 |
| From The New York Times | |
| LETTERS AND DIARIES | 971 |
| A Group of Soldiers' Letters | |
| "CHANT OF HATE AGAINST ENGLAND" | 984 |
| How Ernst Lissauer's Lines were "Sung to Pieces" in Germany | |
| ANSWERING THE "CHANT OF HATE" | 988 |
| By Beatrice M. Barry | |
| ENGLAND CAUSED THE WAR | 989 |
| By T. von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial Chancellor | |
| A SONG OF THE SIEGE GUN (Poem) | 992 |
| By Katharine Drayton Mayrant Simons, Jr. | |
| WHY ENGLAND FIGHTS GERMANY | 993 |
| By Hilaire Belloc | |
| AT THE VILLA ACHILLEION, CORFU (Poem) | 999 |
| By H.T. Sudduth | |
| GERMANY'S STRATEGIC RAILWAYS (With Map) | 1000 |
| By Walter Littlefield | |
| GLORY OF WAR (Poem) | 1004 |
| By Adeline Adams | |
| CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR | 1007 |
NUMBER VI. | |
THE CALDRON OF THE BALKANS | |
| HOW TURKEY WENT TO WAR | 1025 |
| SERBIA AND HER NEIGHBORS | 1036 |
| LITTLE MONTENEGRO SPEAKS | 1043 |
| BULGARIA'S ATTITUDE | 1044 |
| GREECE'S WATCHFUL WAITING | 1050 |
| WHERE RUMANIA STANDS IN THE CRISIS | 1054 |
| EXIT ALBANIA? | 1062 |
| THE WAR IN THE BALKANS | 1068 |
| By A. T. Polyzoides | |
| THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS | 1073 |
| GERMANY VS. BELGIUM | 1101 |
| Case of the Secret Military Documents Presented by Both Sides | |
| THE BIG AND THE GREAT (Poem) | 1114 |
| By William Archer | |
| "FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH" (Poem) | 1119 |
| By Sidney Low | |
| "A SCRAP OF PAPER" | 1120 |
| By Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg and Sir Edward Grey | |
| THE KAISER AT DONCHERY | 1125 |
| By The Associated Press | |
| HAIL! A HYMN TO BELGIUM (Music by F. H. Cowen) | 1126 |
| By John Galsworthy | |
| HOLLAND'S FUTURE (With Map) | 1128 |
| By H.G. Wells | |
| FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT ON GERMAN ATROCITIES | 1133 |
| A FRENCH MAYOR'S PUNISHMENT | 1163 |
| By The Associated Press | |
| WE WILL FIGHT TO THE END | 1164 |
| By Premier Viviani of France | |
| NUITS BLANCHES | 1166 |
| By H.S. Haskins | |
| UNCONQUERED FRANCE | 1167 |
| From the Bulletin Francais | |
| FOUR MONTHS OF WAR (With Map) | 1169 |
| From the Bulletin des Armees | |
| LONG LIVE THE ALLIES! | 1174 |
| By Claude Monet | |
| UNITED STATES FAIR TO ALL | 1175 |
| By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State | |
| THE HOUSE WITH SEALED DOORS (Poem) | 1183 |
| By Edith M. Thomas | |
| SEIZURES OF AMERICAN CARGOES | 1184 |
| By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State | |
| GERMAN CROWN PRINCE TO AMERICA | 1187 |
| By The Associated Press | |
| THE OFFICIAL BRITISH EXPLANATION | 1188 |
| By Sir Edward Grey | |
| ITALY AND THE WAR (With Map) | 1192 |
| By William Roscoe Thayer | |
| HE HEARD THE BUGLES CALLING (Poem) | 1198 |
| By Carey C.D. Briggs | |
| GERMAN SOLDIERS WRITE HOME | 1199 |
| WAR CORRESPONDENCE | 1207 |
| THE BROKEN ROSE (TO KING ALBERT) | 1210 |
| By Annie Vivanti Chartres | |
| THE HEROIC LANGUAGE (Poem) | 1216 |
| By Alice Meynell | |
| CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR | 1224 |
| TO HIS MAJESTY KING ALBERT (Poem) | 1228 |
| By William Watson | |
"Common Sense About the War"
By George Bernard Shaw.
I.
"Let a European war break out—the war, perhaps, between the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, which so many journalists and politicians in England and Germany contemplate with criminal levity. If the combatants prove to be equally balanced, it may, after the first battles, smoulder on for thirty years. What will be the population of London, or Manchester, or Chemnitz, or Bremen, or Milan, at the end of it?" ("The Great Society," by Graham Wallas. June, 1914.)