ABSTRACT
The world would start off on a decent, self-respecting theory or vision about itself. Things could begin to be done in society once more, soundly, permanently, humanly, and from the bottom up. The newspapers in England and America seem to think that in their business of rolling the world along, what they find themselves confronted with just now, is an economic problem. The problem that the newspapers are really confronted with, as a matter of fact, is one with which newspaper men big and little are more competent to deal than they would be with an expert problem in economics. The real problem that newspapers are confronted with every night, every morning, to-day, is a problem in human nature. A great many inventors, and a great many workmen—all the more bold and inventive workmen—and many capitalists and great organizers of facts and of men, are acting as if they believed in human nature.
