The free press Author:Hilaire Belloc Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: upon a foundation of free speech, and of the prose which it begets. Those who prefer to sell themselves or to be cowed gain, as a rule, not even that ephemeral s... more »ecurity for which they betrayed their fellows ; meanwhile, they leave to us the only solid and permanent form of political power, which is the gift -of mastery through persuasion. JUN 2 5 1918 Printed in Great Britain by UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War By RAMIRO DE MAEZTU Crown 8vo. 4l. 6d. net. Postage 5d. " One of the most stimulating and interesting essays in political science that the war has produced."—Land and Water, Practical Pacifism and its Adversaries : "Is it Peace, Jehu?" By Dr. SEVERIN NORDENTOFT With An Introduction By G. K. CHESTERTON Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net. Postage 5d. " A striking indictment of German rule by representatives of oppressed- peoples."—The Times. After-War Problems By The Late EARL OF CROMER, VISCOUNT HALDANE, The BISHOP OF EXETER, Prof. ALFRED MARSHALL, And Others Edited By William Harbutt Dawson Demy 8vo. Second Impression. 5s. 6d. net. Postage 6d " Valuable, clear, sober, and judicial."—The Times. "Will be very helpful to thoughful persons."—Morning Post. " A book of real national importance, and of which the value may very- well prove to be incalculable."—Daily Telegraph. chapter{Section 4By GEORGE D. HERRON Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net. Postage t " He says some magnificent things magnificently "—New Witness. Democracy After the Wai Crown 8vo. By J. A. HOBSON 4s. 6d. It is the writer's object to indicate the nature of the struggle wb will confront the public of this country for the achievement of polit and industrial democracy when the war is o...« less