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camps. In the United States especially the contro- 

 versy between the two schools has been furiously 

 waged, often with what the onlookers have felt to be 

 much unnecessary vehemence. Often, indeed, there 

 has been nothing but mutual misunderstanding to 

 account for the bitterness of the war of words waged 

 between the two schools. In reality they have not 

 been so hopelessly at variance as the bitterness of 

 their words would imply. 



I remember addressing a mass-meeting upon the 

 subject when there were strong partisans of both 

 sides in the audience and upon the platform. The 

 object of my address was to promote a better feeling 

 between the two factions and to create a more friendly 

 relation between them, based upon mutual under- 

 standing, with a view to their uniting upon a common 

 platform. It was gratifying to have the spokesmen 

 of both sides declare their entire satisfaction with 

 the position I had taken and their full acceptance 

 of the working programme I had hastily sketched. 

 Upon several occasions it has been my good fortune 

 to bring about similar harmony and confidence be- 

 tween groups of workers on both sides, so that I am 

 disposed to take a hopeful view of the situation. 

 It is my hope that the present volume will do some- 

 thing in that direction on a larger scale. Without 

 attempting to minimize the differences, it can, I 

 believe, be shown that the points of agreement are 



