Springf’d Republican p9a O 24 ’20 140w
“The student of ethics will considerably fortify his knowledge of the history of ethical thought by reading the book, especially the first twelve chapters.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p862 D 16 ’20 440w
READE, WILLIAM HENRY VINCENT. Revolt of labour against civilization. *$1 (*3s) Longmans 331
(Eng ed 20–9138)
“The author’s main thesis we shall best summarize in his own words:—‘Progress in civilization does always and everywhere manifest the working of a single and fundamental law—the greater the necessity of things, the smaller their importance.’ To pass on to the application of his thesis to the present situation, we find him in whole-hearted opposition to the ideal, as he conceives it, of Bolshevism, and the labour movement in general. In this he detects the main and imminent danger to civilization. The conflict between the Allies and the Germans was, he holds, of comparatively minor importance, not because he defends or justifies our enemies, but because he discovers no plain or clear-cut conflict of principle. The real danger he descries in the attempt, on the part of the so-called working-class, to evade or reverse his fundamental law of civilization, to make the satisfaction of the most primitive needs the only social activity of any value or deserving of any reward.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p1410 D 26 ’19 100w
Reviewed by H. J. Laski