"From the first line to the last 'The Great Illusion' expresses my own opinions." =Dr. Sommer, Member of the Reichstag.= "A most timely work, and one which everyone, be he statesman or political economist, should study ... especially if he desires to understand a peace ideal which is practical and realizable.... Without agreeing on all points, I admit gladly the force and suggestiveness of the thesis.... We on our side should make it our business, as you should on yours, to render it operative, to use the means, heretofore unrealized, of joint work for civilization. In rendering possible such joint work, Norman Angell's book must take a foremost place." =Dr. Max Nordau.= "If the destiny of people were settled by reason and interest, the influence of such a book would be decisive.... The book will convince the far-seeing minority, who will spread the truth, and thus slowly conquer the world." =Dr. Albert Suedekum, Member of the Reichstag, author of several works on municipal government, editor of Municipal Year-Books, etc.= "I consider the book an invaluable contribution to the better understanding of the real basis of international peace." =Dr. Otto Mugdan, Member of the Reichstag, Member of the National Loan Commission, Chairman of the Audit Commission, etc.= "The demonstration of the financial interdependence of modern civilized nations, and the economic futility of conquest, could not be made more irrefutably." =Professor A. von Harder.= "I agree that it is a mistake to wait for action as between governments; far better, as Jaurès proved the other day in the French Chamber, for the peoples to co-operate.... The book should be widely circulated in Germany, where so many are still of opinion that heavy armaments are an absolute necessity for self-defence." FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC AUTHORITIES. ="American Journal of Political Economy."= "The best treatise yet written on the economic aspect of war." ="American Political Science Review."= "It may be doubted whether within its entire range the peace literature of the Anglo-Saxon world has ever produced a more fascinating or significant study." ="Economist" (London).= "Nothing has ever been put in the same space so well calculated to set plain men thinking usefully on the subject of expenditure on armaments, scare and war.... The result of the publication of this book has been within the past month or two quite a number of rather unlikely conversions to the cause of retrenchment." ="Investors' Review" (London), November 12, 1910.=