SOURCE: A review of Human Nature in Politics, by Graham Wallas, in the Yale Review, Vol. 18, May, 1909, pp. 101-03.

In the following review, Ford considers Wallas's Human Nature in Politics as a work of "unique value. "

This work is a philosophical inquiry by a practical politician into the nature of the forces that shape politics. Books of this class are rare. Few men have the combination of abundant knowledge with power of expression required to produce them. Hence they possess unique value.

The work is in two parts, the first of which may be characterized as a schedule of the bankruptcy of Liberalism as a political philosophy, and the second as a consideration of the possibility of obtaining from science a new system to take over the assets and continue the business as a going concern. The first part is, of course, more solid and complete. It deals...