WALTER LIPPMANN A PREFACE TO MORALS THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK MCMXXIX Copyright, 1929. By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1929. _First printing_ _All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form._ _Printed in the United States of America by_ J. J. LITTLE AND IVES COMPANY, NEW YORK CONTENTS PART I THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ANCESTRAL ORDER CHAPTER PAGE I. The Problem of Unbelief 3 1. Whirl is King 3 2. False Prophecies 5 3. Sorties and Retreats 10 4. Deep Dissolution 14 II. God in the Modern World 21 1. Imago Dei 21 2. An Indefinite God 23 3. God in More Senses Than One 25 4. The Protest of the Fundamentalists 30 5. In Man’s Image 35 III. The Loss of Certainty 37 1. Ways of Reading the Bible 37 2. Modernism: Immortality as an Example 40 3. What Modernism Leaves Out 48 IV. The Acids of Modernity 51 1. The Kingly Pattern 51 2. Landmarks 56 3. Barren Ground 61 4. Sophisticated Violence 63 5. Rulers 65