Acknowledgements

We thank all those writers who have allowed us to make critical use of the passages from their books which we quote in Part II; we have asked (and been granted) permission wherever the material used seemed to exceed in length or importance the critic’s legitimate allowance. The following publishers have asked us to make formal acknowledgements to them: Messrs. George Allen and Unwin on behalf of Mr. Aldous Huxley, Messrs. Ernest Benn on behalf of Mr. J. W. N. Sullivan and Sir Leonard Woolley, Messrs. Blackwell and Mott on behalf of Mr. C. Day Lewis, Cambridge University Press on behalf of Sir Arthur Eddington, Sir James Jeans, Professors Bertrand Russell and A. N. Whitehead, Messrs. Chatto and Windus on behalf of Dr. F. R. Leavis, The National Council for Civil Liberties on behalf of Sir Norman Angell, Messrs. John Murray on behalf of Sir Cyril Norwood, Oxford University Press on behalf of Mr. J. Middleton Murry, Messrs. George Routledge on behalf of Professor I. A. Richards.

Finally we thank our friends Norman Cameron, Patricia Carey, Clifford Dalton, John Dennis, Margaret Frame, John Graves, Francis Hemming, Basil Liddell Hart, Colin McFadyean, Thomas Matthews, James Reeves, Darcy Sullivan, Virginia Wimperis and Gilbert Yates for various assistance in preparing this book.