Excerpt from The Crown of Wild Olive: Four Lectures on Industry and War Called the Preface in former editions; it is one of my bad habits to put half my books into preface. Of this one, the only prefatory thing I have to say is that most of the contents are stated more fully in my other volumes; but here, are put in what, at least, I meant to be a more popular form, all but this introduction, which was written very care. Fully to be read, not Spoken, and the last lecture on the Future of England, with, Winch, and the following note: on it, I have taken extreme pains.