Events of the last few years have shaken our political and economic systems to their foundations. The old guarantees of order and progress no longer suffice. The problems of 1920 are not those of 1914. Human Nature itself, as an operative force, has changed. These chapters discuss the revelations and describe the new ideals that are struggling to get themselves realized in the new Industry, the new State, and the new World-Order. What the Workers Want A Study in British Labour BY ARTHUR GLEASON _Demy 8vo._ _About 16s. net._ A record of the aims and achievements of British Labour, the result of five years’ continuous study of Labour conditions. It deals with what the workers want, who the leaders are, what the strikes mean, what the workers have won, and what they seek. There are chapters by Messrs. Smillie, Frank Hodges, C. T. Cramp and others; and the appendix contains all the important documents of the industrial revolution. * * * * * LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LIMITED RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. 1. FOOTNOTES: [1] In an article published in _Macmillan’s Magazine_, December 1887, I dealt with the subject of Moultrie’s Poems. [2] Article on “Eton as it is,” in the _Adventurer_, No. 23, by “E. G. R.” (G. C. Macaulay). [3] Dr. Lyttelton, when Headmaster of Eton, substituted the cane for the birch in the Upper School. [4] From the chapter on “The Author of Ionica,” in _Eton under Hornby_. [5] See Brinsley Richards’s _Seven Years at Eton_. [6] The article, unsigned, appeared in No. 23. [7] The _Adventurer_, No. 20. [8] See the concluding article, “Valete Etonenses,” No. 29. [9] The incident is a good example of the way in which the _real_ ethics of diet are often overlooked, while stress is laid upon some quite minor and subordinate aspect of it. [10] I was not aware of these lines having appeared in print, until they were quoted by Sir Edward Cook in his _More Literary Recreations_, 1919. My version of them is slightly different from his; but I think my recollection is trustworthy. [11] _My Days and Dreams_, by Edward Carpenter, 1916. [12] The two years allowed for vegetarianism have now become forty, and all of them years of hard work. [13] “Our competitive system of industry is a vestigial institution. It is a survival from the militant ages of the past.... It is a system of cannibalism. Instead of instilling the feeling of brotherhood, it compels us to eat each other.”--_Savage Survivals_, by J. Howard Moore, 1916. [14] Since the above was written, Dean Inge has added his name to the illustrious list. Is it not time, by the way, that some one collected the Gloomy Dean’s golden sayings in a volume--under the title of _Ingots_, perhaps? [15] Article on “The Bringing of Sentient Beings into Existence,” the _Ethical World_, May 7, 1898. [16] _Pall Mall Gazette_, April 28, 1888.