By the same Author. THE OXFORD REFORMERS, JOHN COLET, ERASMUS, and THOMAS MORE. Being a History of their Fellow-work. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Price 14s. HOW CAN COMPULSORY EDUCATION BE MADE TO WORK IN ENGLAND? Reprinted, with Alterations, from the Fortnightly Review. Price 6d. 21-5267 THIS ESSAY was written during the American Civil War, and was in part printed at the time for private circulation only. I have been induced to publish it at this juncture, in the hope that a calm statement of the economic argument in favour of International Reform may obtain an impartial hearing at a time when the public mind is in some danger of being drawn off the true scent by the cry for increased armaments and the abandonment of the principle of non-intervention. I have added a Postscript on the relation of the reform advocated in the Essay to the policy of non-intervention so earnestly advocated by the late Mr. Cobden. F. S. HITCHIN: February 1871. |