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English Review . maxim is partly due to the lack of that oldhumility of soul before our great literature. Our faith forthe future, therefore, comes to rest more and more on thosefew individuals here and there whose personal standardis comprised of the sum total of their literary thought andexperience readily interchanged with that of other literarythought, other literary experience. Humility is, for them,not servility; nor is acknowledgment of superiority neces-sarily anything to do with slavery. The exponents of truecriticism need not despair while there are individual readersready always to bow to such authority as their reasonapproves. 89 THE ENGLISH REVIEW P.^O., British India and New Zealand Companies Mail, Passenger and Freight Services. EGYPT, INDIA, STEAITS, CHINA, JAPAN, BURMAS,PERSIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, BAST & SOUTH AFRICA,QUEENSLAND via Torres Straits. - Also AUSTBALIA and NEW- ZEALAND from LONDON, SOUTHAMPTON or MEDITEBEANEAN PORTS, via Suez, Panama, the Cape, Vancouver or San Apply: For Freight or Ganerr?,! Information— P. <£ O. and British India Companies, 122, Street, London. 3; Ncv) Zealand Shipping Co., or Union Co. of , 138, Leadenhall Street, London, 3. For Passage:—P. & O. House, 14, Cockspur Street, London, Books ECONOMICS. Credit-power and Democracy. By C. H. Douglas and A. Cecil Palmer, ys. 6d. net. Mr. Douglas, of the air-force, was not quite successful in hisEconomic Democracy, for he is not a born writer, but this time,aided by the lucid pen of Mr, Orage, he has written a book whichwill have to be considered most carefully by all serious here to deal with it as it deserves : we shall hope totreat it editorially, when, and if, we understand the solution he putsforward to the capitalist system. His diagnosis is, we believe,correct. The real evil is financial credit which corners moneyand so controls production and distribution, thus carrying on asabotage of su
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