PREFACE 



While we cry, " All's wrong with the world," and 

 question if God's in His heaven, new truths knock 

 at the portals of thought, knock and go unheeded 

 so intent are we upon holding to what of good we 

 have. Sad, indeed, are the times upon which we have 

 fallen if we come not through their anguish to larger 

 values, more vital principles of action! What the 

 world will require most in the day of its reconstruc- 

 tion is a synthesis sufficiently big to give meaning to 

 the sorrow and suffering that humanity is now ex- 

 periencing. Only thus may the dignity of the 

 human soul be preserved. 



Of the many changes passing over the face of 

 things, that which psychological thought is under- 

 going is perhaps the most far-reaching in its import. 

 Where formerly that thought interpreted conscious- 

 ness in terms of past experience, it now asserts that 

 the individual mind is to be understood only through 

 its relation to sociological processes. As a result, 

 the concept of the State is fast passing over from 

 that of an efficient organization for the adjustment 

 of individual interests to the concept of a living, 



growing organism for which a present good is ever 



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