Excerpt from In the Wake of the War, Parliament or Imperial Government?
It may reasonably be objected to this book (1) that it is not a book; (2) that most of what is said here has been said in other ways elsewhere; (3) that one who has never been in Parliament can not be competent to criticise a parliamentary system.
It has however often been found convenient to put into book form that which is really a tract for the times, having none of the character of permanency which every book rightly so called must possess. There is no very serious fraud in giving such writing the external form usually associated with a book when there is no idea of deceiving a reader by appearances.
It is true that suggestions for the government of the Empire more or less similar to those here set out have been made by others. But absolute originality is hardly necessary to justify, or at any rate to excuse, contribution to a discussion of general interest at this time. The government of the Empire and the working of the parliamentary system is an urgent question to which statesmen and newspapers alike have gravely invited the public to turn their thoughts.
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