Excerpt from Is It a New World?: A Series of Articles and Letters Contributed by Correspondents to the "Daily Telegraph," August September, 1920
The articles and letters included in this volume form a curious chapter in the annals of contemporary thought. The question, Is it a New World? - originally suggested by Viscount Burnham - to which they are an answer, was found to be one which a large number of people were asking themselves, with an intense interest only equalled by the baffling variety of their opinions and standpoints. Dean Inge's letter, which was the starting-point of the whole discussion, raised certain points of controversy, which, debated backwards and forwards, ran through most of the contributions sent to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph, in solution, or partial solution, of the problem which had been propounded. The main distinction between the views of the Optimist and the Pessimist remained clear throughout the whole correspondence, but it was overlaid and diversified by a number of subordinate points, as each writer put forward the main critical issues which appealed to his own intelligence. It is inevitable, of course, that every controversy should decline from the large initial conceptions with which it starts to the smaller and more acutely felt interests and prejudices of the individual.
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