By the same Author. THE OXFORD REFORMERS, JOHN COLET, ERASMUS, and THOMAS MORE. Being a History of their Fellow-work. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Price 14s. HOW CAN COMPULSORY EDUCATION BE MADE TO WORK IN ENGLAND? Reprinted, with Alterations, from the Fortnightly Review. Price 6d. PREFACE. THIS ESSAY was written during the American Civil War, and was in part printed at the time for private circulation only. I have been induced to publish it at this juncture, in the hope that a calm statement of the economic argument in favour of International Reform may obtain an impartial hearing at a time when the public mind is in some danger of being drawn off the true scent by the cry for increased armaments and the abandonment of the principle of non-intervention. I have added a Postscript on the relation of the reform advocated in the Essay to the policy of non-intervention so earnestly advocated by the late Mr. Cobden. F. S. HITCHIN: February 1871. B |