ABSTRACT
Mankind may some day look at our age as that in which the most difficult of human arts—and the last to be adumbrated by man—emerged from the cavern age. All that lies behind us, as well as all that lies under our eyes, in the art of government is barbarous; even, if I may venture this paradoxical statement, the idea itself of the art of government—which may after all be but a cave-dwelling anticipation of something as yet but half guessed amongst men: the balance of collective and individual trends in human life.
