SOURCE: “Canada's National Policy,” in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, June, 1917, pp. 312-19.

Robinson compares Trotter's work to that of the English philosopher Bertrand Russell.

The importance of crises in all organic development has been emphasized by recent anthropologists and sociologists. The crisis or unexpected “fix” in which a creature finds itself furnishes the test of its capacity of readjustment. In the case of man, crisis centers attention on unobserved or ill-understood factors in a situation and may happily lead to more complete control and thus to escape from pressing difficulties. The present war is a crisis of unprecedented magnitude, and is inevitably promoting thinking of unprecedented variety and depth in regard to man's woes, their origin, nature and remedy. The English philosopher Bertrand Russell, surprised in his abstract and subtle metaphysical and mathematical speculations by undreamed-of horrors, directs the resources of an extraordinarily free and highly...