From War to Work (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from From War to Work

This little book is an attempt, however immature and full of shortcomings, to show in their true light one or two of the great forces which go to make or mar nations. Whatever other criticisms it may provoke, I hope I shall not be accused of in sincerity for whatever may be thought of my point of View, it is at least set out with an entire honesty of purpose. I am con vinced that the disastrous lack of unity of aim and object in our national life in pre-war days was due in the main to the lack of any general understanding of what national life is. The vast majority of us never reached any real conception of the relation of the individual to industry, to agriculture, to politics, to the national institutions generally. To the average worker in this country the whole scheme of things seemed an aimless chaos; and millions of them found in the war their first opportunity for real self expression. Probably the most lasting and the most really satisfying of human joys comes to a man from activity expressed in good work; it is at least doubtful whether any real measure of health, happiness, and prosperity is possible on any other basis. When men by the million do not know what they are about, is it strange that the State is riven with internecine strife and disorder?

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