ABSTRACT
In the good old times, when even the siege of a city took a decade, no Cassandra would have expected any appreciable percentage of the unpleasantnesses she had prophesied to come about within ten years. But nowadays the times move faster, and such happenings as the decay of civilization and the decline of the British Empire may make noticeable progress in ten years. They may be traceable in XI. The Crash, XII. The Decline of Democracy, XIII. The Decline of Sea-Power, XIV. The Disintegration of the British Empire, XV. The Decay of British Influence, XVI. The Abyssinian Fiasco, XVII. The Collapse of the League of Nations, and XVIII. The Decline of the Birth-rate.
