Excerpt from The Common Weal: Six Lectures on Political Philosophy These lectures, which were written at the request of Mr Victor Fisher of the Brif'sh Workers' League, and have been published al ready, week by week, in the British Citizen, are now collected together in a volume. I was much disappointed that the proposal to give these lectures in London had to be abandoned, and that I was unable to deliver them myself, in Cambridge. I am very grateful to Mr G. G. Coulton, who was kind enough to read them on my behalf, as well as to the numerous friends whom I consulted on special points. 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.