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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Preface to Politics, by Walter Lippmann This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Preface to Politics Author: Walter Lippmann Release Date: December 16, 2006 [eBook #20125] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PREFACE TO POLITICS*** E-text prepared by Matt Whittaker, Juliet Sutherland, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) A PREFACE TO POLITICS by WALTER LIPPMANN "A God wilt thou create for thyself out of thy seven devils." Mitchell Kennerley New York and London 1914 Copyright, 1913, by Mitchell Kennerley _Contents_ CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION I. Routineer and Inventor 1 II. The Taboo 34 III. The Changing Focus 53 IV. The Golden Rule and After 86 V. Well Meaning but Unmeaning: the Chicago Vice Report 122 VI. Some Necessary Iconoclasm 159 VII. The Making of Creeds 204 VIII. The Red Herring 247 IX. Revolution and Culture 273 INTRODUCTION The most incisive comment on politics to-day is indifference. When men and women begin to feel that elections and legislatures do not matter very much, that politics is a rather distant and unimportant exercise, the reformer might as well put to himself a few searching doubts. Indifference is a criticism that cuts beneath oppositions and wranglings by calling the political method itself into question. Leaders in public affairs recognize this. They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. Eager to believe that all the world is as interested as they are, there comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that
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