The problem of human evolution stated by Arnold's allegory of

the river The three forces that mould human evolution :

(a) Mutual relations of human beings

(b) External circumstances acting on the senses
(c) Direct education of the mind...

The three considered separately.

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(a) Stationary or progressive
(b) External circumstance of England in the twentieth century
conducive to decadence, as compared to external cir-
cumstance in the past. No fault of the race, but a
chance of economic law. It happens that ugliness and
squalor are cheap to-day...
This can only be remedied by artifice or conscious effort
overriding strict economic law. This process has
already begun. It is the only hope of the world · 401-2
(c) English education of the mind was better in the past.
Nature and economic law gave a narrow but whole-
some education
To-day machinery and economic law have destroyed narrow
education and substituted vulgarity
The new education of the mind (like the new beauty of
external conditions) must be made artificially (effect of
primary education without secondary)...
Evil has armed herself with the new weapons of machinery
and organisation. It is time that Good should imitate
her

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The modern conservative party and the modern doctrine of
Laissez faire, practically and theoretically contradict
all these conclusions. Conservatives hold that the world
will save itself without deliberate alteration of economic
and physical conditions. But it has been shown that
though this may have been true in the past, it will be
false in the future. Evils of the strength of conser-
vativism
Intellectual as well as political tendencies of the age are against
action and reform at the very moment both are most
needed, for reasons given above. Inactive tendency of
modern culture deplored ...

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The allegory again. The "good time coming," and how to make

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CONTENTS

I. REALITIES AT HOME

CHARLES F. G. MASTERMAN, M.A., Fellow of Christ's
College, Cambridge.

Albany Dwellings, Camberwell.

II. THE HOUSING PROBLEM.

F. W. LAWRENCE, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College,

Cambridge.

Resident Mansfield House University Settlement.

III. THE CHILDREN OF THE TOWN.

REGINALD A. BRAY, B.A.

Albany Dwellings, Camberwell.

IV. TEMPERANCE REFORM

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NOEL BUXTON, M.A., and WALTER HOARE.

V. THE DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY

P. WHITWELL WILSON, B.A.

Editor "Railway Herald."

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VI. SOME ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF CHARITY 236

A. C. PIGOU, B.A.

VII. THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE

F. W. HEAD, M.A., Fellow Emmanuel College, Cam-
bridge.

Late Resident Cambridge House University Settlement.

VIII. IMPERIALISM

G. P. GOOCH, M.A.

Author of "Annals of Politics and Culture," "English

Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century."

IX. THE PAST AND FUTURE

G. M. TREVELYAN, M.A., Fellow Trinity College, Cam-

bridge.

Author of "England in the Age of Wycliffe,"

Lecturer "Working Men's College."

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