Excerpt from Society and Solitude Y thanks are due, and I desire to pay them to M a few friends who have had the kindness to 'read these Chapters in manuscript and have given me the benefit of their criticism and advice, and then have been patient enough to help me in preparing them for the press. And thanks, again, to the Editor of The Times Educational Supplement for his generous permission to use (in Chapters VII and VIII) parts of articles on The Organisation of Ideals and on The Specialist of the Future which I wrote for him several years ago. And thanks, not least, to the Officials of the Cam bridge University Press for their care and their courtesy, both inexhaustible. 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.