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“ This is virtually a restatement of those fundamental aims to which the more articulate section of British labor is endeavoring to give expression. It crystallizes the wide-spread dissatisfaction fermenting in the minds of workers. "The commodity theory of Labour," says the author, "is fundamentally inconsistent with the recognition of the fact that 'Labour' consists of human beings." He denies the sovereignty of the state but regards it as only one among various forms of association. The book reveals the difference between the commonwealth that is and the one that might be. ”

“ It is necessary for us to get the facts about the rise of British labor whose social programme has arrested the world's attention; about railways and other public utilities whose future control is in dispute ”

“ The book as a whole tends to clarify the struggle between India and Great Britain, and to explain India's reaching for democracy and the political, social and economic facts from which it derives.
By Norman Angell: The British Revolution and the American Democracy ($1.50) .
We have had popular war books; this is the authoritative after-war book. Few Americans are prepared for an intelligent discussion of the vital problems that clamor for solution. The prevailing unrest cannot be interpreted without an understanding of its universal significance. ”