LIBERTY AUTHORITY, AND FUNCTION" in the A CRITIQUE OF AUTHORITY AND LIBERTY LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY PREFACE THE contents of this book have appeared between March 1915 and June 1916 in the New Age. But the volume is not merely a collection of articles, for most of them were written with a view to the place they would occupy in the completed work, and every chapter has been revised. I owe to the New Age and its editor, Mr. A. R. Orage, the idea of the Guilds; to M. Léon Duguit that of objective rights; to Mr. G. E. Moore that of objective good; to Herr Edmond Husserl that of objective logic; and to Mr. T. E. Hulme the acknowledgment of the political and social transcendency of the doctrine of original sin. I wish to express my thanks to all, and also to Mr. J. M. Kennedy, who has shared with me the labour of giving my thoughts this English setting, and to Messrs. A. R. Orage and Rowland Kenney for their numerous corrections. 348848 |