SOURCE: "Lowes Dickinson and Graham Wallas," in the Political Quarterly, Vol. III, No. 4, October-December, 1932, pp. 461-66.

In the following excerpt, Laski evaluates Wallas and the significance of his work.

Graham Wallas was, I think, the supreme teacher of social philosophy in the last forty years. Other men have left a systematic edifice more likely to have enduring influence—Leonard Hobhouse, Alfred Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Webb. But Wallas had two gifts of unique quality. He was a magnificent lecturer who, at his best, was one of the most inspiring academic forces of our time. The innumerable students, both in England and America, who went to hear him were different people because they had passed through his lecture-room. And, even more remarkably, he was a very great director of research. I doubt whether anyone I have ever known had quite his faculty for making the young graduate feel the...