TO THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE: May I take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to the members of the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, and to the Trustees of the Beer Foundation for an experience of deep and abiding interest? I cannot flatter myself that I could teach your students very much in the brief course of lectures here reprinted, but I am certain that I, on my side, learned a great deal. The freshness, the vitality, the largeness of conception, the intellectual as well as social hospitality that characterize American academic life, have been to me stimulating and invigorating beyond all expectation. I can wish nothing better to those who follow me on the Beer Foundation than that they should receive an impression as fortunate and profound. Very sincerely yours, L. T. HOBHOUSE. GRINDELWALD, July 26, 1911. CONTENTS PROGRESS AND THE Struggle FOR EXISTENCE III. THE VALUE AND LIMITATIONS OF EUGENICS |