Preface
THE Cole Lectureship calls for six lectures. To this extent the form of the material of this book is determined by the Lectureship; for the discussion falls into six corresponding chapters. Three chapters deal, it will be seen, with the New Age; its Evidence; its Perils; its Values. The three other chapters deal with the New Mind needed for the New Age; the Political, Economic, and Social Challenge; the Educational Challenge; the Moral and Religious Challenge. It is obvious that this wide range of discussion can be covered only suggestively within the limits of the Lectureship, not exhaustively. I have not hesitated to use in this book much of the material of the little book—For a New America in a New World—written for the soldiers overseas; since that was prepared only for private distribution among some of the returning soldiers, and was not published for the general public either there or in America, and has never been reprinted in America. Such material as has been used, is wrought, of course, into the connected argument of the present discussion.
One hesitates to add to the number of books concerning the present critical times, but the Cole Lectureship requires publication, and one may hope that any honest attempt at interpretation of these difficult days may not be wholly without significance.
H. C. K.
Oberlin College.