_Rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury Formerly Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and Headmaster of Repton_ When I received and accepted the invitation to deliver the Paddock Lectures for the season 1914-1915, no one imagined that these years were destined to have the historical significance which they must now possess for all time. I was myself one of those who had allowed concern for social reform, and internal problems generally, to occupy my mind almost to the exclusion of foreign questions. I was prepared to stake a good deal upon what seemed to me the improbability of any outbreak of European war. For all who took this view the events of recent m…
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