TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. 
organization to be kept in view, but also as to the best and 
urest V ay of reaching that goal ; and every citizen who cares 
or the good of his fellow-men, who wishes to form an intelligent 
opinion on the political proposals of the day, who desires to 
exercise, in however humble a way, a wholesome influence on 
the social development of his country, should endeavour to 
understand at least the bearings of the problem. Beside this 
problem, all questions touching the extension of the Franchise, 
the abolition of the House of Lords, or even the reformation 
of Ae House of Commons, sink into insigniflcance. The 
decision of these latter points will merely answer the question, 
what sort of servants shall the nation employ? The more 
undamental questions are : what sort of duties shall the nation 
entrust to its servants? what sort of commands shall the 
nation give ? 
GODDARD H. ORPEN. 
I, Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn,