12-7-1940 PREFATORY HE author feels that this little book THE should not be published without a few words as to the purpose of it. There are perhaps few persons that have not consciousness that we are living in a very unusual time, as there are perhaps few persons that understand why it is so. Some of us feel that we are approaching a great change, or that we are passing through a great change. Some of us, that there is something wrong that we are contending with some difficulty or other. And of these, some feel that the difficulty that we are contending with is a difficulty of our minds; and some that it is a difficulty of our affairs; and some that it is a difficulty of both. The purpose of this little book, and of what the author has to say following it, is to clear this matter up, that we may understand the condition that we are in, and what it is leading us to. That the method that the author takes to do this is unusual, is because the condition that we are in is unusual. |