Epigraph
‘Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.’
Preface
Portions of some of the chapters in this book have already appeared in The Times, the Quarterly Review, the Edinburgh Review, the Nineteenth Century, the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard, and are now incorporated in their proper place in the larger scheme on which they were originally written. I am indebted to the proprietors of those publications for their kindness in permitting me so to reproduce them.
An old friend and valued colleague of mine in the Department of Shipyard Labour—Mr. C. F. Farrar—did me the great service of assisting to get the book through the press.
To my Secretary, Miss K. I. Toogood, I owe the preparation of the Index.
L. M.
August 12th, 1922.