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Excerpt from Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War: A Critique of Authority and Liberty as the Foundations of the Modern State and an Attempt to Base Societies on the Principle of Function
The contents of this book have appeared between March 1915 and June 1916 in'the New Age. But the volume is not merely a collection of articles, for most of them were Written with a View to the place they would occupy in the completed work, and every chapter has been revised. I owe to the: newi Age and its editor, Mr. A. R. Orage, the idea of the Guilds; to M. L�on Duguit that of objective rights; to Mr. G. E. Moore that of objective good; to Herr Edmond Husserl that Of Objective logic; and to Mr. T. E. Hulme the acknow1eclg=ment of the political and social trans 'cendencyyof the doctrine of original sm. I wish to express my thanks to all, and also 'to Mr. J. M. Kennedy, who has shared with me the labour of giving my thoughts this English setting, and to fmessr's. A. R. Orage and Rowland Kenney for M, their numerous corrections.
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