CONTENTS

PAGr

IMPORTANT FOREWORD 5

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND THANKS 13

PREFACE 15

BOOK I
APOLOGY AND EXCUSE

1. Excursus and Autobiography 21

(i) Bourgeois Boyhood 29

(n) Apprenticeship to Life 34

(in) Parish Priest 38

2. The Rise and Decline of Capitalism 47

(i) Nineteenth-century Evolution 47

(ii) Nineteenth-century Consummation 51

(iii) Twentieth-century Frustration 55

3. The Moral Denial of Chiistiauity 63

(i) Denial of Juslke 66

(ii) Denial of Freedom 73

(ui) Denial of Creative Living 80

(iv) Denial of Fellowship 81

BOOK II

THE SOVIET BLUE-PRINTS THE
NEW SOCIETY

1. The New Experiment 87

2. Tsnrist Background 91

3. The Programme and the Plan 104
\. The Drama of Socialist Planning in
3, The Summons to Science 120
5. Our Heritage 136
7. " Spread Wheat North; Industry Easf " 155