This book deals in a masterly fashion with one of the greatest of men’s problems.

Lord Radcliffe discusses the problem of power today in the light of the experience of the thinkers, statesmen and administrators of the past. He makes a penetrating analysis and defence of the American constitution. He refers to the achievement of British administrators in nineteenth-century India, paying to these disinterested men a tribute, all the more valuable because in these days it is so rare. He stresses the importance and permanence of “power, authority, dominion” in the affairs of men.