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"A curious but cleverly written little book which avowedly seeks to prove that the coming realization of human rights will inevitably bring in its train the tardier but not less certain realization of the rights of the lower races."-Speaker. NEW IMPORTANT VOLUME ON ECONOMICS BY RALPH WALDO TRINE, AUTHOR OF "IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE." IN THE FIRE OF THE HEART ; OR, The Great Modern "People's Movement " in Government. 350 pages. 4s. 6d. net; postage 4d. Social, economic, labour, and political conditions as they at present affect the everyday life and the prosperity and contentment of the great common people of the nation, are the vital topics of this volume. "The views expressed in this book are sympathetic, moderate, and thoughtful. The author has not tried to be either scientific or statistical. The evils he recognises he unfortunately cannot redress, but hope is denied to none of us, and he sends out his ideas with altruistic generosity. Let us hope they may bear fruit." --Pall Mall Gazette. "Readers anxious to see the fruits of individualism would do well to study this volume, written, as the author quaintly tells us, for that splendid great common people who have made this as well as every nation of importance."-Daily News. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK HOUSE, PORTUGAL STREET. |