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SOME little time ago I had the good fortune to interview a number of the leading representatives of thought in this country, France, and Germany. My object was to elicit the opinions of these men on certain fundamental questions. The answers are reprinted in this volume. Most of these men are, naturally enough, men of science, for it is chiefly to science that we look for light and leading now-a-days.

Besides the interviews, but connected with them, are chapters dealing more fully with the questions discussed, or else illustrating certain of their implications. These implications refer chiefly to the relations between mysticism, art, and science, a matter which seems to me of the greatest importance for the new outlook towards which we are working. The dissertations on Beethoven, Maxwell, and Newton, are introduced for their bearing on this subject. The chapter on Mathematics and Culture was originally delivered as the Presidential Address to the London Mathematical Association, and to this its colloquial form is due.