Excerpt from Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War: A Critique of Authority and Liberty as the Foundations of the Modern State and an Attempt to Base Societies on the Principle of Function The contents of this book! Have appeared between March 1915 and June 1916 in the New Age. But the v'olume 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. Leon 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 trans oendency 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."