PREFACE 



Each of the chapters of this book was an address which 

 was prepared without any view to publication* They 

 were delivered in whole or in part several times before 

 they were written down* 



I lay no claim to originality* My mind is like a 

 village pound for the collection of stray thoughts and 

 ideas* I know full well that they did not originally 

 belong to me^ but I have appropriated them all and now 

 use them as my own* 



Now, therefore, let me do what little I can to disarm 

 the criticisms of those who would accuse me of 

 plagiarism, by pleading guilty* 



Surrey Lodge, 

 Longsight, 



Manchester* 



