The Trend of History: Origins of Twentieth Century Problems (Classic Reprint)

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We are standing on the threshold of an unpolitical age. Politics has fallen from its high estate. Since the floodgates of political privilege have been opened, and participation in political affairs has been vouchsafed to all, we find everywhere a progressively increasing apathy in matters relating to politics. The preeminence of the State politically conceived, has been called into question. Its sovereignty has been shorn of many of its mystical characteristics. Other forms of corporate organisation are pressing for recognition. We may in turn see arising before our eyes a new, great social institution. Like feudalism it is in its essence unpolitical. As Lord Bryce has pointed out feudalism was a social and legal system, only indirectly and by consequence a political one. We may to-day note that industrialism, which may serve to denominate this new institution, is a social and economic system, only indirectly political. Such would appear to be the trend of history.

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