WHO LOOK 331

IX. WHO IS AFRAID? 337

X. RULES FOR TELLING A HERO--WHEN ONE SEES ONE 343

XI. THE TECHNIQUE OF COURAGE 346

XII. THE MEN WHO WANT THINGS 349

XIII. MEN WHO GET THINGS 356

XIV. SOURCES OF COURAGE FOR OTHERS--TOLERATION 364

XV. CONVERSION 371

XVI. EXCEPTION 380

XVII. INVENTION 383

XVIII. THE MAN WHO PULLS THE WORLD TOGETHER 397

XIX. THE MAN WHO STANDS BY 400

XX. THE STRIKE OF THE SAVIOURS 402

XXI. THE LEAGUE OF THE MEN WHO ARE NOT AFRAID 404

BOOK FIVE

GOOD NEWS AND HARD WORK

PART I. NEWS AND LABOUR 413

PART II. NEWS AND MONEY 422

PART III. NEWS AND GOVERNMENT

I. OXFORD STREET AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 431

II. OXFORD STREET HUMS, THE HOUSE HEMS 440

III. PRESIDENT WILSON AND MOSES 449

IV. THE PRESIDENT SAYS YES AND NO 455

V. THE PRESIDENT SAYS "LOOK!" 463

VI. THE PEOPLE SAY "WHO ARE YOU?" 469

VII. THE PEOPLE SAY "WHO ARE WE?" 472

VIII. NEWS ABOUT US TO THE PRESIDENT 474

IX. NEWS-MEN 476

X. AMERICAN TEMPERAMENT AND GOVERNMENT 483

XI-XII. NEWS-BOOKS 505-513

XIII. NEWS-PAPERS 517

XIV. NEWS-MACHINES 524

XV. NEWS-CROWDS 527

XVI. CROWD-MEN 550

EPILOGUE 539

BOOK ONE

CROWDS AND MACHINES

TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

_"A battered, wrecked old man
Thrown on this savage shore far, far from home,
Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows twelve dreary months
... The end I know not, it is all in Thee,
Or small or great I know not--haply what broad fields, what
lands!...

And these things I see suddenly, what mean they
As if some miracle, some hand divine unsealed my eyes,
Shadowy vast shapes smile through the air and sky,
And on the distant waves sail countless ships,
And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me."_

CHAPTER I

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

The best picture I know of my religion is Ludgate Hill as one sees it
going down the foot of Fleet Street. It would seem to many perhaps like
a rather strange half-heathen altar, but it has in it the three things
with which I worship most my Maker in this present world--the three
things which it would be the breath of religion to me to offer to a