The Passman (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Passman As this great war is drawing nearer its inevitable end, social reformers are becoming more and more engrossed in plans for the "reconstruction" of society. But what does this "reconstruction" mean? When we speak of the restoration of Belgium, for instance, the mind instantly pictures an army of workers of various kinds, immediately peace is declared, devoting every ounce of energy they possess to the great task of repairing the havoc war has wrought in that devastated land. As far as its physical features are concerned we then see it in statu quo ante bellum. But are our ideas regarding the reconstruction of society after the war equally definite and clear? I doubt it. The following inferences may, however, I believe, be fairly drawn from the way in which these words are generally used nowadays: (1) That the terrible convulsions of war have rendered the present structure of society unfit for human habitation. Whether this unfitness is due to inherent defects which the shock of war has simply served to reveal, or to the uncontrollable and altogether unforeseen violence of that shock, these are matters into which we need not stop to inquire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.