NATIONALISM.

Two mimeographed papers were circulated through the mails before the meeting to a selected list of persons interested in the subject of economic nationalism, one by P. H. Knight on, "The Implications of Nationalism to Economic Theory," and the other by Max Handman on "Nationalism and the Industrial Revolution." This article analyzes these papers. In introducing the discussion of his paper, Knight stressed its constructive import against an impression reported that it seemed to try to close the door against any hope for liberty. It did aim to bring out the seriousness of the situation, but less on the ground of historical inevitability in the abstract than of inference from the ordinary behavior of men in group relations today, and the motives manifested. Professor Handman presented a brief outline of his paper with an enumeration of the forms of nationalism and particularly of nationalism as shown in protectionism and imperialism. The effects of the Industrial Revolution were described with particular reference to India, Germany, Italy and Spain. He concluded that wherever nationalism strives to obtain the advantage in productive technique which is a characteristic of the Revolution, the reason is not to be sought in the economic advantages, which such an increase in production might give, but rather in the increase of international power and prestige which an effective productive system brings with it.