Excerpt from Current Social and Industrial Forces
Writing in "Socialism and the Great State," Mr. H. G. Wells makes the following observation; "Now opposed to the Conservators arc all those who do not regard contemporary humanity as a final thing nor the Normal Social Life as the inevitable basis of human continuity... they look for new ways of living and new methods of human association with a certain adventurous hopefulness." To the latter class belong for the most part the thinkers whose writings make up this book. Unrest and disturbance are so widespread and insistent that it seems appropriate to bring together a selection of writings by a number of men who are striving to promote the ideas and forces that make for improvement. This effort to bring a wide variety of liberal minds to bear on the social and industrial problem is the chief distinguishing feature of the hook.
Not all of the authors of the selections are equally liberal in their viewpoints. It will be noticed that some liberals are in thorough disagreement with others, often on the most fundamental issues. Some sources will perhaps be classed as radical and extremist; these are inserted on the presumption that, inasmuch as there is to-day a radical philosophy and extremist movement, it is to the general advantage to know what it means, whither it leads, and what power it commands. Some will obviously be termed conservative or reactionary; these arc inserted either to draw a more accurate estimate by presenting both sides of an issue or to present certain facts which enter into the foundations of liberal conclusions or to suggest the power of the opposition with which liberalism must contend.
This guiding motive, obviously, is thoroughly different from an intention to make up a propagandist compilation. The aim is to present the case of those who believe in betterment. Their organized strength, their platforms and policies, their social and industrial philosophies, their plans of action, all require estimate and description. If the forces and ideas and ideals which underlie current restlessness, disturbance and fear can be brought down to words, defined and described in a manysided way, then the vital purpose which suggested the book will have been faithfully followed.
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