The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife

The following Studies and Notes, made during the earlier period of the present war and now collected together for publication, do not – as will be evident to the reader – pretend to any sort of completeness in their embrace of the subject, or finality in its presentation. Rather they are scattered thoughts suggested by the large and tangled drama which we are witnessing; and I am sufficiently conscious that their expression involves contradictions as well as repetitions.