Excerpt from This Age of Ours: Containing the Book of Problems and the Book of Socialism
It is frequently asserted that man is made what he is by his environments, the physical and economic phenomena of his existence being more powerful factors in the process of shaping his destiny than ethics, philosophy or belles lettres. For this reason I thought that it would be the more popular course first to publish that volume of "This Age of Ours," which deals with the matter of fact problems, problems of a constitutional, political and economic nature, and to reserve for the volume to follow the consideration of the purely ethical, philosophical and to some extent literary questions which engage, and often threaten to absorb, the minds of the men of our times.
Whether from a bookseller"s standpoint I have acted wisely in adopting this arrangement I shall learn soon enough from the manner in which the public receive this volume.
Considered from the standpoint of a would-be scholar I feel convinced that to adopt the present arrangement, was my bounden duty. However, I had better state the reason simple though it be.
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