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Excerpt from The Guild State: Its Principles and Possibilities
On the social barometer the needle shows threatening signs of finding the markings on the dial too few to register its lowest intentions. There is consequently much hurrying to and fro in the world - like a camp scuttling to tighten the ropes before the wind begins. The soldiers and the politicians, knowing little of history - or anything else - vainly imagined that they could give us their Great Plague of 1914-1918, and that no Wat Tylers and John Balls would arise hereafter to declare that they disliked the results. To-day, the rulers of the earth probably realize that they have been like schoolboys recklessly playing in a powder magazine. Hence a sudden crop of books on Reform and Reconstruction, as numberless as the good intentions with which the other world is rumoured to be already paved. They would be admirable books, so many of them, if it were not for the somewhat vital defect that they ignore most of the facts. More especially, they refuse to take man - that patient sport of the wits and the wise - as he really exists; but rather as a dummy studio model, which they may dress according to their weirdest tastes. There was once, it is said, a learned professor who set himself to write an essay on the giraffe. He did not go to Africa to see one; he retired to a tower and wrote a beautiful and convincing book out of his imagination.
The following essay is an attempt to state the Guild remedy for the disasters of modern statesmanship.
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