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  JANUS IN MODERN LIFE




                                 JANUS
                                  IN
                              MODERN LIFE

                                  BY
                         W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
                  D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.B.A., &c.

              _Fools only learn by their own experience,
             Wise men learn by the experience of others._

                                LONDON:
                    ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. LTD.
                10 ORANGE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE W.C.
                                 1907.




"There are two roads to reformation for mankind—one through
misfortunes of their own, the other through those of others; the former
is the more unmistakable, the latter the less painful.... For it is
history, and history alone, which, without involving us in actual
danger, will mature our judgment, and prepare us to take right views,
whatever may be the crisis or the posture of affairs."

  POLYBIUS.




PREFACE.


These papers essay an understanding of some of the various principles
which underlie the course of political movements in the present age.
There is no attempt at introducing any considerations which are
not familiar to every intelligent person, nor any comparisons with
other instances which are not already well known in history. Why
considerations which seem so obvious when stated, should yet not be
familiar, may perhaps be due to the estrangement between science and
corporate life, which is an unhappy feature of a time of transition
both in education and in motives.

The point of view here is that of public and general conditions and
not of private variations of beliefs. Such moral factors, though
all important to the