So it is that, in spite of their apparent urgency, I ask the reader to detach himself from these present conflicts of national politics, of political parties and of the class war as completely as he can; or, if he cannot detach himself completely, then to play such a part in them, regardless of any other consideration, as may be most conducive to a wide-thinking, wide-ranging education upon which we can base a new world order. A resolute push for quite a short period now might reconstruct the entire basis of our collective human life. In this book I have tried to show what form that push should take, to show that it has a reasonable hope of an ultimate success, and that unless it is made, the outlook for mankind is likely to become an entirely dismal prospect. I put these theses before the reader for his consideration. They are not discursive criticisms of life, not haphazard grumblings at our present discontents, they are offered as the fundamental propositions of an ordered constructive project in which he can easily find a part to play commensurate with his ability and opportunities. INDEX Adult learning, spread of, 167 Aircraft as a means of quick travel, 48 in future wars, 9 Air transport a problem for Europe, 58 possibilities of future, 66 "All-red air routes," 67 America and the League of Nations, 15, 28, 47 generalized history teaching in, 108 her part in European reconstruction, 62 locomotion in, 49, 52 political unity of, 60 (_see also_ United States) American social system, comparisons, 2 Americans, patriotism of, 69 Anthology and a modernized Bible, 125 Apocrypha, the, and a modernized Bible, 119 _et seq._ Arithmetic, a wrong way of teaching, 149 Austria after the war, 44 Belloc, Hilaire, 178 Bible, the, a criticism of, 98 _et seq._ and the theory of origin, 103 English translation of, 107 its effect upon civilization, 101 redundancy in, 99 rules of health in, 111 why it has lost hold on the people, 101 Bible of Civilization, the, 95 _et seq._ need for frequent revision, 136 what it will contain, 105 _et seq._ Biology, Huxley's system of, 171 study of, 151, 152 Bolshevik propaganda, suppression of, 175 Bolshevism and the overthrow of Russia, 44 Books and mentality, 183 Boundary question in Europe, 54, 59, 61, 62 Bradlaugh, Charles, lectures of, 171 Breasted, Professor, works of, 108 Breeding, points required in, 140 Britain, national egotism of, 72 British Civil Air Transport Committee, 48, 66 British Empire, the, a prime necessity for security of, 65 a wrong conception of, 64 an ocean state, 65 its failure with reconstruction, 28-9 British monarchy, the, lost opportunities of, 29 Browning, Oscar, 108 Canonical books and the Bible of Civilization, 119 Chinese discovery of gunpowder, 6 Christianity, 23 spread of, in Western Europe, 78