More Books of the Week (Continued from page 55.) God
and Politics is the arresting title of a little cloth-bound pamphlet in the first part of which " Augur " sets forth his reasons for believing that the " Higher Conscience " is more potent than it used to be in national and international affairs (Selwyn and Blount. 2s. 6d.). " The search for the demo- cratic ideal is a proof of divine inspiration." And, again, " as far as civilized people are concerned, a war of conquest for profit, an offensive war, has become morally impossible." " Augur " might well have developed the theme more fully
instead of diverging to the question of the relations between Europe and America, and arguing that " it will be necessary for Europe, of which Great Britain is part, to affirm its economic unity as a background for a bargaining power suffi- cient to impress American mentality with the need for political adjustments on the basis of perfect equality."
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