Abstract

Beyond Politics

The article presents information about the book "The Passing of Politics," by William Kay Wallace. Wallace has chosen an opportune time for the launching of his thesis. The U.S. national state and its governing methods have everywhere fallen into disrepute as having visibly failed in their prime function of preserving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A more lamentable display of incompetence in the relation of states toward one another than the Great War has exhibited is not easy to conceive, while within each national area politics has everywhere become a byword of incompetence and unreality. For Mr. Wallace this is no passing phase of slow adjustment to new conditions, but a definite decay of political institutions no longer fitted to perform any good or useful service in the modern world.