unparalleled anomalies in its “national” finance, suggest that a
flanking movement against the Powers of Finance may be best achieved
through it. This is “the place where the spring of action will
play”—where alone a counterforce to that which is not only making for
centralization in all directions and superannuating such agencies of
differentiation as Scots and Gaelic, but would eliminate religion
by completely mechanizing the masses of mankind and make Socialism
the last and worst stage in capitalism—the Servile State—rather than
the first in a new and nobler order, can be generated. Here is the
“comprehensive-enough agency”—“the nation-size principle”—the meeting
ground of Scottish Nationalists, Catholics and Socialists, those
diverse elements upon whose recognition of their interdependence,
their need to complement and moderate each other, depends not only
the realizable proportion of the ideals of each but a Scottish
Renaissance of international consequence. Let us not fight with
enemies—England, commercial Calvinism, “Progress,” thought-hating
democracy—which are merely the agents of the foe that is really
worthy of our steel, the cause that lies behind them all; but, in
concentrating on the latter, remember that every other nation has
suffered in like fashion to some degree from its operations, and make
common cause with the elements in all these other countries which are
seeking to overcome it.
It is noteworthy that banking and national interests in Scotland
are far more conspicuously divorced from each other than in most
countries. There is less “cover” here than at the centre. Leading
Scottish bankers do not discourse, like their English brethren, on
current topics; they confine themselves to the business in hand. Mr
McKenna and the like may create a diversion by pretending to let, not
the cat, but one or two of its meows out of the bag occasionally, but
in Scotland the public is too docile even to need “circuses.”
The amalgamation of the Scottish banks with the English, along
with such subsidiary developments or sequelæ of the same policy,
as the amalgamation of the railways, and the English control of
Scottish newspapers, represents one side of that picture of which
the inevitable obverse is the fact that the collective area of deer
forests (1,709,892 acres in 1883) is now 3,599,744 acres; seventeen
Scottish counties to-day have a population less than it was fifty
years ago, eleven have less than in 1821, and five less than in 1801;
and of the remaining population of the country more than 45 per cent.
(over two million people) live more than two in a room!
These tendencies are continuing at an accelerating rate. This is the
price Scotland is paying for its “sense of participation in a larger
nationality”—a sense that even then must be qualified by recognition
of the fact that the “larger nationality” will in turn be subjected
to the same “policy” as the “smaller” (although both, no doubt, may
continue a while longer to have a sense of “Empire”)—unless Scotland
comes to the rescue of England in the manner suggested.
The Scottish Convention of Burghs (of which I have been a member)
is the oldest municipal institution in Europe—it is also the most
effete and powerless. Otherwise its continued existence would not be
tolerated for a moment. Let it discuss with any “real determination”
the effect of the amalgamation of the Scottish banks, railways, etc.,
with the English—or the relation of the banking system to the policy
of neglect and deliberate “misunderstanding” which is eviscerating
Scotland—and it will speedily see the end of its long history.
Scotland’s, and more than Scotland’s, only hope—albeit yet a slender
one—is through the Scottish Socialist movement, and, it may be, one
of its Irish Catholic leaders. The closer inter-relationship of
the Scottish Socialist and Nationalist Movements, their increasing
identity of personnel, and happily, their tardy concentration on the
financial aspect, is the one promising feature in the situation,
unparalleled in history, in which a whole nation, reputedly
hard-headed and patriotic, have been almost ineradicably persuaded
by (mainly alien—or alienated) financial interests that black is
white and white black until they wax only the more perfervid in
their patriotic protestations, and the more diligent in their
Sisyphus task of futile “thrift,” the more their country is denuded
of population, status, and prosperity, and themselves of all that
makes life worth living. It is significant that _The Scotsman_ and
other Anglo-Scottish papers dealing with the new Draft Bill, are
increasingly conceding the “advantages” of sentimental nationalism,
but simultaneously warning their readers that “realistic nationalism”
will be reactionary and profitless—“what Scotland wants is not a
Parliament of its own, but more employment, new industries,” etc.,
as if the present system were supplying these, and nationalism
threatened the supply. Happily, as I have said, the Scottish Home
Rule Movement is rapidly re-orienting itself along realist lines,
but the degree of realism achieved has not yet reached through to
the financial backwork of our affairs, the real manipulation area,
without control of which “self-determination” is only a delusion
and a snare. This is not surprising—when that stage has not even
been reached in the Irish Free State despite the long history of
intense nationalistic activity there and the relatively great
measure of “political success” achieved. But the Scottish psychology
differs from the Irish, and, nationalistically laggard as Scotland
has been in comparison with other countries, there are grounds
for anticipating that, once it does waken up, it will redeem the
leeway at a single stride and be the first to penetrate into that
arcanum which still foils even Mr de Valera with its intangible and
ubiquitous barriers.
Whether “dreamers of dreams” can still prove themselves “movers
and shakers of the world” or not, the protagonists of a Scottish
Renaissance are dreaming the dream outlined in these pages, and have
already earned at least the right to say to their countrymen in the
words of Jaurès: “It is we who are the true heirs of the ancestral
hearth: we have taken its flame while you have kept but the cinders.”
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=Daedalus=, or Science and the Future. By J. B. S. HALDANE, Reader in
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“The essay is brilliant, sparkling with wit and bristling with
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=Callinicus=, a Defence of Chemical Warfare. By J. B. S. HALDANE.
_Second impression._
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=Icarus=, or the Future of Science. By BERTRAND RUSSELL, F.R.S.
_Fourth impression._
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that the progress of Science must be a boon to mankind.”—_Morning
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=What I Believe.= By BERTRAND RUSSELL, F.R.S. _Third impression._
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=Tantalus=, or the Future of Man. By F. C. S. SCHILLER, D.SC., Fellow
of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. _Second impression._
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=Cassandra=, or the Future of the British Empire. By F. C. S.
SCHILLER, D.SC.
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=Quo Vadimus?= Glimpses of the Future. By E. E. FOURNIER D’ALBE,
D.SC., _Second Impression._
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=Thrasymachus=, the Future of Morals. By C. E. M. JOAD, author of
“The Babbitt Warren,” etc. _Second impression._
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deliberate brilliance.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “As outspoken
and unequivocal a contribution as could well be imagined. Even
those readers who dissent will be forced to recognize the
admirable clarity with which he states his case. A book that will
startle.”—_Daily Chronicle._
=Lysistrata=, or Woman’s Future and Future Woman. By ANTHONY M.
LUDOVICI, author of “A Defence of Aristocracy,” etc. _Second
Impression._
“A stimulating book. Volumes would be needed to deal, in the
fullness his work provokes, with all the problems raised.”—_Sunday
Times._ “Pro-feminine but anti-feministic.”—_Scotsman._ “Full of
brilliant commonsense.”—_Observer._
=Hypatia=, or Woman and Knowledge. By MRS BERTRAND RUSSELL. With a
frontispiece. _Third impression._
An answer to _Lysistrata_. “A passionate vindication of the
rights of woman.”—_Manchester Guardian._ “Says a number of things
that sensible women have been wanting publicly said for a long
time.”—_Daily Herald._
=Hephaestus=, the Soul of the Machine. By E. E. FOURNIER D’ALBE, D.SC.
“A worthy contribution to this interesting series. A delightful
and thought-provoking essay.”—_Birmingham Post._ “There is a
special pleasure in meeting with a book like _Hephaestus_.
The author has the merit of really understanding what he is
talking about.”—_Engineering._ “An exceedingly clever defence of
machinery.”—_Architects’ Journal._
=The Passing of the Phantoms=: a Study of Evolutionary Psychology and
Morals. By C. J. PATTEN, Professor of Anatomy, Sheffield University.
With 4 Plates.
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grateful for an excellent presentation of yet another point
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=The Mongol in our Midst=: a Study of Man and his Three Faces. By
F. G. CROOKSHANK, M.D., F.R.C.P. With 28 Plates. _Second Edition,
revised._
“A brilliant piece of speculative induction.”—_Saturday Review._
“An extremely interesting and suggestive book, which will reward
careful reading.”—_Sunday Times._ “The pictures carry fearful
conviction.”—_Daily Herald._
=The Conquest of Cancer.= By H. W. S. WRIGHT, M.S., F.R.C.S.
Introduction by F. G. CROOKSHANK, M.D.
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tells people what, in his judgment, they can best do, _here and
now_.”—From the _Introduction_.
=Pygmalion=, or the Doctor of the Future. By R. MCNAIR WILSON, M.B.
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much wisdom in it.”—_Evening Standard._ “No doctor worth his salt
would venture to say that Dr Wilson was wrong.”—_Daily Herald._
=Prometheus=, or Biology and the Advancement of Man. By H. S.
JENNINGS, Professor of Zoology, Johns Hopkins University. _Second
Impression._
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=Narcissus=: an Anatomy of Clothes. By GERALD HEARD. With 19
illustrations.
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rocket down the ages.”—_Daily News._ “Interesting, provocative, and
entertaining.”—_Queen._
=Thamyris=, or Is There a Future for Poetry? By R. C. TREVELYAN.
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_New Statesman_. “Very suggestive.”—_J. C. Squire_, in _Observer_.
“A very charming piece of work, I agree with all, or at any rate,
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=Proteus=, or the Future of Intelligence. By VERNON LEE, author of
“Satan the Waster,” etc.
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=Timotheus=, the Future of the Theatre. By BONAMY DOBRÉE, author of
“Restoration Drama,” etc.
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=Paris=, or the Future of War. By Captain B. H. LIDDELL HART.
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=Wireless Possibilities.= By Professor A. M. LOW. With 4 diagrams.
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amusingly written, and a mine of curious knowledge for which the
discerning reader will find many uses.”—_Glasgow Herald._
=Lycurgus=, or the Future of Law. By E. S. P. HAYNES, author of
“Concerning Solicitors,” etc.
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roundly declares that English criminal law is a blend of barbaric
violence, medieval prejudices and modern fallacies.... A humane
and conscientious investigation.”—_T.P.’s Weekly._ “A thoughtful
book—deserves careful reading.”—_Law Times._
=Euterpe=, or the Future of Art. By LIONEL R. MCCOLVIN, author of
“The Theory of Book-Selection.”
“Discusses briefly, but very suggestively, the problem of the
future of art in relation to the public.”—_Saturday Review._
“Another indictment of machinery as a soul-destroyer ... Mr Colvin
has the courage to suggest solutions.”—_Westminster Gazette._ “This
is altogether a much-needed book.”—_New Leader._
=Pegasus=, or Problems of Transport. By Colonel J. F. C. FULLER,
author of “The Reformation of War,” etc. With 8 Plates.
“The foremost military prophet of the day propounds a solution
for industrial and unemployment problems. It is a bold essay
... and calls for the attention of all concerned with imperial
problems.”—_Daily Telegraph._ “Practical, timely, very interesting
and very important.”—_J. St Loe Strachey_, in _Spectator_.
=Atlantis=, or America and the Future. By Colonel J. F. C. FULLER.
“Candid and caustic.”—_Observer._ “Many hard things have been
said about America, but few quite so bitter and caustic as
these.”—_Daily Sketch._ “He can conjure up possibilities of a new
Atlantis.”—_Clarion._
=Midas=, or the United States and the Future. By C. H. BRETHERTON,
author of “The Real Ireland,” etc.
A companion volume to _Atlantis_. “Full of astute observations and
acute reflections ... this wise and witty pamphlet, a provocation
to the thought that is creative.”—_Morning Poet._ “A punch in every
paragraph. One could hardly ask for more ‘meat.’”—_Spectator._
=Nuntius=, or Advertising and its Future. By GILBERT RUSSELL.
“Expresses the philosophy of advertising concisely and
well.”—_Observer._ “It is doubtful if a more straightforward
exposition of the part advertising plays in our public and private
life has been written.”—_Manchester Guardian._
=Birth Control and the State=: a Plea and a Forecast. By C. P.
BLACKER, _M.C._, M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
“A very careful summary.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “A
temperate and scholarly survey of the arguments for and against
the encouragement of the practice of birth control.”—_Lancet._
“He writes lucidly, moderately, and from wide knowledge; his book
undoubtedly gives a better understanding of the subject than any
other brief account we know. It also suggests a policy.”—_Saturday
Review._
=Ouroboros=, or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind. By GARET GARRETT.
“This brilliant and provoking little book.”—_Observer._ “A
significant and thoughtful essay, calculated in parts to make our
flesh creep.”—_Spectator._ “A brilliant writer, Mr Garrett is a
remarkable man. He explains something of the enormous change the
machine has made in life.”—_Daily Express._
=Artifex=, or the Future of Craftsmanship. By JOHN GLOAG, author of
“Time, Taste, and Furniture.”
“An able and interesting summary of the history of craftsmanship
in the past, a direct criticism of the present, and at the end his
hopes for the future. Mr Gloag’s real contribution to the future of
craftsmanship is his discussion of the uses of machinery.”—_Times
Literary Supplement._
=Plato’s American Republic.= By J. DOUGLAS WOODRUFF. _Fourth
impression._
“Uses the form of the Socratic dialogue with devastating success.
A gently malicious wit sparkles in every page.”—_Sunday Times._
“Having deliberately set himself an almost impossible task, has
succeeded beyond belief.”—_Saturday Review._ “Quite the liveliest
even of this spirited series.”—_Observer._
=Orpheus=, or the Music of the Future. By W. J. TURNER, author of
“Music and Life.” _Second impression._
“A book on music that we can read not merely once, but twice or
thrice. Mr Turner has given us some of the finest thinking upon
Beethoven that I have ever met with.”—_Ernest Newman_ in _Sunday
Times_. “A brilliant essay in contemporary philosophy.”—_Outlook._
“The fruit of real knowledge and understanding.”—_New Statesman._
=Terpander=, or Music and the Future. By E. J. DENT, author of
“Mozart’s Operas.”
“In _Orpheus_ Mr Turner made a brilliant voyage in search of
first principles. Mr Dent’s book is a skilful review of the
development of music. It is the most succinct and stimulating
essay on music I have found....”—_Musical News._ “Remarkably able
and stimulating.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “There is hardly
another critic alive who could sum up contemporary tendencies so
neatly.”—_Spectator._
=Sibylla=, or the Revival of Prophecy. By C. A. MACE, University of
St. Andrew’s.
“An entertaining and instructive pamphlet.”—_Morning Post._
“Places a nightmare before us very ably and wittily.”—_Spectator._
“Passages in it are excellent satire, but on the whole Mr Mace’s
speculations may be taken as a trustworthy guide ... to modern
scientific thought.”—_Birmingham Post._
=Lucullus=, or the Food of the Future. By OLGA HARTLEY and MRS C. F.
LEYEL, authors of “The Gentle Art of Cookery.”
“This is a clever and witty little volume in an entertaining
series, and it makes enchanting reading.”—_Times Literary
Supplement._ “Opens with a brilliant picture of modern man, living
in a vacuum-cleaned, steam-heated, credit-furnished suburban
mansion ‘with a wolf in the basement’—the wolf of hunger. This
banquet of epigrams.”—_Spectator._
=Procrustes=, or the Future of English Education. By M. ALDERTON PINK.
“Undoubtedly he makes out a very good case.”—_Daily Herald._
“This interesting addition to the series.”—_Times Educational
Supplement._ “Intends to be challenging and succeeds in being so.
All fit readers will find it stimulating.”—_Northern Echo._
=The Future of Futurism.= By JOHN RODKER.
“Mr Rodker is up-to-the-minute, and he has accomplished a
considerable feat in writing on such a vague subject, 92 extremely
interesting pages.”—_T. S. Eliot_, in _Nation_. “There are a good
many things in this book which are of interest.”—_Times Literary
Supplement._
=Pomona=, or the Future of English. By _Basil de Sélincourt_, author
of “The English Secret”, etc.
“The future of English is discussed fully and with fascinating
interest.”—_Morning Post._ “Full of wise thoughts and happy
words.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “His later pages must stir
the blood of any man who loves his country and her poetry.”—_J. C.
Squire_, in _Observer_. “His finely-conceived essay.”—_Manchester
Guardian._
=Balbus=, or the Future of Architecture. By CHRISTIAN BARMAN.