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Excerpt from The Problem of PopulationThat in many cases an increasing population can provide for itself an increased volume of subsistence ismejmen have hands and brains as well as mouths. But ultimately the capacity of man to produce main tenance for himself depends on the plentifulness of the materials that the earth supplies, and when these begin to grow scarce in any country the inhabitants of that country must seek new territory or new m...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 234: July, 1921 October, 1921, to Be Continued QuarterlyAccordingly they paid some attention to a report that was drafted for them on that subject, in which it was pointed out that the horizon of the British Empire had lately undergone on all sides a very great change. As a result of their debate, they recommended that the French and the British Governments should exchange their Views...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 224: July, 1916-October, 1916, To Be Continued QuarterlyAll such predictions have been triumphantly falsified. The Dominions, and the Dependencies as well, have made England's quarrel their own. The world has seen that the British Empire, through all its square miles of territory and its of people, is one against the world. Its populations are not all British: most of them are not Br...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 228Those lessons may be grouped under the following headings (1) responsibility for war, (2) conduct of war, (3) aims of war, (4) views on peace and the future. It is desirable for us to understand the German mind on these questions, and every source of serious information should be utilized to that end. The writers under discussion have, of course, other ends in View and do not set o...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 226: July, 1917 October, 1917Second: All other questions arising between the signatories and not settled by negotiation, shall be submitted to a council of conciliation for hearing, consideration, and recommendation.Third: The signatory Powers shall jointly use forthwith both their economic and military forces against any one of their number that goes to war, or commits acts Of hostil...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 230: July, 1919-October, 1919Speaking at Manchester, on the 3oth December last, he had expressed the same idea in somewhat different terms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digit...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 220: Or Critical Journal, July, 1914 October, 1914, To Be Continued QuarterlyIn the same year (1853) that Morier embarked upon a diplomatic career in Germany, Lyons was entrusted with an important and semi-independent mission to Rome, and remained in Italy until 1858. From 1859 to 1865 he served as Minister at Washington he was transferred to the Embassy at Constantinople in 1865, and then as ambassador ...

Excerpt from Land Nationalization and Land TaxationThree schools of Land Nationalizers. - These varying types of landownership are under present conditions mere matters of convenience determined by private bargaining. But as soon as it is proposed to substitute national for in dividual ownership, the determination of the character of the ownership to be created becomes a question of fundamental importance. Is the State to claim the revenue of ...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 231: Or Critical Journal, January, 1920 April, 1920, to Be Continued QuarterlyA few months ago there was published an important and well written tractate entitled 'christianity and Industrial Problems.' It is the Report of a Committee (one of five) appointed by the two Archbishops in connexion with the National Mission, ' which had been organised and carried through during the war. The Archbishop of Cant...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 225: January, 1917 April, 1917And political programme. They were, besides, decidedly anti-magyar. Consequently, the out-and-out supporters of Germanism and of Dualism in the Austrian Parliament were reduced by the operation of universal suffrage to a small minority - a state of things that could not fail to disquiet Berlin. The health of Francis Joseph seemed precarious. In the autumn...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 233: January, 1921 April, 1921A certain amount has been omitted on the recommendation of eminent counsel and some names have also been left out but for the rest the entries in my diary have been left substantially as they were written, and are a faithful record of my impressions during this extraordinary and eventful epoch.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...

Excerpt from British Industries Under Free Trade: Essays by ExpertsBritish industries have or have not ¿ourished under Free Trade. The volume is necessarily limited in size, and the time allowed for its preparation was not long. It has therefore been impossible to deal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

Excerpt from Are We Ruined by the Ruined by the GermansIn a little book recently published, an attempt is made to show that British trade is being knocked to pieces by German competition, that already the sun has set on England's commercial supremacy, and that if we are not careful the few crumbs of trade still left to us will be snapped up by Germany. This depressing publication, aptly entitled "Made in Germany, " has received the quasi-relig...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 219: January, 1914-April, 1914It is probable that the Balkan war would not have greatly in¿uenced the bulk of Indian Mahommedans had it not been for the efforts of the pan-islamic agitators and their organs in the Press.' He does not produce, and I believe he cannot produce, a single quotation to show that there has been a pan-islamic agitation in the political sense which his words,...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 232: July, 1920-October, 1920, To Be Continued QuarterlyBut Lord Grey's letter, though singularly complete within its limits, could not do more than outline the difficulties with which the people of the United States and their representatives have been confronted in dealing with the treaty. He had to compress into two columns of a newspaper the substance of what had been debated in t...

Excerpt from Economic LibertyThis book consists of a series of essays. They are grouped together under one title because they are all inspired with one purpose - the desire to defend economic liberty against the attacks made upon it by men and women who think that they can secure progress by various schemes for curtailing freedom. In reality the path these professed reformers are treading leads downwards, not upwards. Without liberty there can...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 229: January, 1919 April, 1919A vicious circle had been created to meet the low wage rates cottages were either included in terms of employment or let at formal rents which bore no relation to modern costs Of construction. Though many landlords did continue to build, the process could not be general because they received no adequate return either directly from rents or indirectly in ...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 236: July, 1922-October, 1922Something not themselves seems to compel the people of the United States to take an interest in the affairs of Europe which far exceeds the interest that Europeans take in American affairs. Americans visiting England complain that there is no American news in English papers, and infer from its absence that British opinion is not educated to the point of t...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 236: July, 1922-October, 1922Something not themselves seems to compel the people of the United States to take an interest in the affairs of Europe which far exceeds the interest that Europeans take in American affairs. Americans visiting England complain that there is no American news in English papers, and infer from its absence that British opinion is not educated to the point of t...

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 218: July, 1913-October, 1913The new vigour of elementary education was supplemented by the awakening of secondary education. The Endowed Schools Act, 1869, aroused from their long sleep the Elizabethan and later schools, and in thirty years these foundations were in full usefulness once more and at last provided for girls aswell as boys.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes h...