NATIONAL SOCIAL PROBLEMS HV FREDERIC HARRISON MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTINS STREET, LONDON 1908 COHYKII. HT 1908 THE MACM1LLAN COMPANY EDWARD SPENCER BRESLY JOHN HENRY BRIDGES CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION ix PART I NATIONAL PROBLEMS KSSAY 1. BISMARCKISM THE POLICY OF BLOOD AND IRON . 3 2. THE DUTY OF ENGLAND . . . . - 35 3. FRANCE AFTER WAR . . .71 4.. LEON GAMBETTA . . - 97 5. THE MAKING OF ITALY . . I 1 6 Cavour ... 130 Garibaldi . 146 6. AFGHANISTAN . .... 163 7. THE ANTI-AGGRESSION LEAGUE . . . . 18 8. EGYPT . . ...
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NATIONAL SOCIAL PROBLEMS HV FREDERIC HARRISON MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTINS STREET, LONDON 1908 COHYKII. HT 1908 THE MACM1LLAN COMPANY EDWARD SPENCER BRESLY JOHN HENRY BRIDGES CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION ix PART I NATIONAL PROBLEMS KSSAY 1. BISMARCKISM THE POLICY OF BLOOD AND IRON . 3 2. THE DUTY OF ENGLAND . . . . - 35 3. FRANCE AFTER WAR . . .71 4.. LEON GAMBETTA . . - 97 5. THE MAKING OF ITALY . . I 1 6 Cavour ... 130 Garibaldi . 146 6. AFGHANISTAN . .... 163 7. THE ANTI-AGGRESSION LEAGUE . . . . 18 8. EGYPT . . . . . . . 195 9. THE BOER WAR . . . 223 TO. THE STATE OF SIEGE . . .229 II. EMPIRE AND HUMANITY . 244 viii NATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS PART II SOCIAL PROBLEMS ESSAY PAGE 1. THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY . . .271 2. TRADES-UNIONISM ...... 307 3. INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATION . . . - 333 4. SOCIAL REMEDIES ...... 377 5. SOCIALIST UNIONISM . . . .,421 6. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS SOCIALISM . . . 440 NATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS r rhe essential pri iciple of modern society is to bring all political action under the control of moral duty. COMTE. INTRODUCTION THIS book being an appeal to international morality and a plea for social regeneration develops the principles laid down in two preceding works the first, on religious belief the second, on philosophic thought. In The Creed of a Layman I traced the growth of my own convictions from a theologic to a scientific Faith. In The Philosophy of Com non Sense I dealt with the intellectual grounds on which a human religion must be based. The natural complement of these treatises is to show this system of philosophic religion in action. Let us observe its practical effect in moulding opinion on the great questions of Nations and ofSociety on patriotism, international justice, government and again, on problems of Wealth, of Labour, of Socialism. Theology, absorbed in matters of Worship and hopes of Heaven, has no call to meddle with earthly politics, to offer counsel to secular rulers, or to x NATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS propound any scheme for reorganising society. Its kingdom is not of this world and it seldom intrudes on worldly affairs without adding to the conflicts and the perplexities it finds. A human religion, on the other hand, is bound by its creed to preach a humane standard in politics, to work for a new earth, if it cannot promise a new heaven. It would belie its name and betray its truth if its first duty were not to show how the world of to-day might be made better, how a happier future here might be secured for our descendants how international strife should be abated, and class wars merged in a moral and religious Socialism. Accordingly, at the close of a long and somewhat active life, a life entirely detached from any party interest or personal ambition, I collect and re-edit a few of the essays which I wrote on various questions, national or social. The lightning reviewer may perhaps call them ancient history for they concern periods before his own memory, of which he seldom reads in books. But these topics are not ancient history except so far as they deal with great events, whereof the consequences have to be faced still, for they form the burning problems of statesmanship in our own generation. I do not hesitate to reissue studies that are thirty, even forty years old for the same forces are still dominant and the same dilemmas are still unsolved. Vital problems concerning France, Germany, and Italy our own problems in Egypt, South Africa, anu India are as much alive to-day as they were in the sixties, the seventies, or the eighties. The errors, adventures, crimes of a previous generation are more in evidence than ever, grow ever more perplexing and dangerous. The party politician who has put his money INTRODUCTION xi on the wrong horse, the journalist on the eve of a division who has had to defend or to denounce a minister, may well hesitate in after years to, print the speech he made or the article he wrote on the spur of the moment...
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