Excerpt from Historical Backgrounds of the Great War, the War: Its Origins and Warnings

This book originated in a series of lectures arranged for the Sheffield University War Lectures Committee, and for various relief Committees, Adult Schools, Ethical Societies, and similar organizations in the Sheffield area. Since they were given, however, they have grown so considerably that I have thought it better to call them in their present form essays rather than I actually administered such masses to my various audiences in lecture form. Nevertheless, an occasional colloquialism or repetition in the text which I may have not removed may serve to indicate the original form of the four essays which constitute the book.

In writing these pages I have aimed rather at provoking thought than at imparting exact information, and if a critical reader undertakes to check my statements he will doubtless find the book afford him much valuable exercise.

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