A Preface to Politics

by Walter Lippmann

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A PREFACE TO POLITICS

BY

WALTER LIPPMANN

"A God wilt thou create for thyself
out of thy seven devils."

MITCHELL KENNERLEY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1914

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY
MITCHELL KENNERLEY

Contents

CHAPTER		PAGE
	[Introduction]
I.	[ Routineer and Inventor]	1
II.	[The Taboo]	34
III.	[The Changing Focus]	53
IV.	[The Golden Rule and After]	86
V.	[Well Meaning but Unmeaning: the Chicago Vice Report]	122
VI.	[Some Necessary Iconoclasm]	159
VII.	[The Making of Creeds]	204
VIII.	[The Red Herring]	247
IX.	[Revolution and Culture]	273