A Traveller in War-Time

r is in progress has that internal democratic process of evolution been going on, presaging profound changes in the social fabric. And these changes must be dealt with by statesmen, must be gu

itish speak with appalling frankness of their blunders. They are fighting, indeed, for the privilege of ma

ndent self-realization. Mr. Chesterton, in writing about the American Revolution, observes that the real case for the colonists is that they felt that they could be something which England would not help them to be. It is, in fact, the only case for separation. What may be called the E

e stage when it is ceasing

esult, Canada and Australia and New Zealand have sent their sons across the seas to fight for an empire that refrains from coercion; while, thanks to the policy of

ho at times have almost had their way. But to do this, of course, would be a surrender to the German contentions, an acknowledgment of the wisdom