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title: Preface to the Second Edition
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# Preface to the Second Edition

This text

- **Work:** [Human Nature in Politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/)
- **Author:** Graham Wallas
- **Published:** 1908

Full details

- **Rights:** First published in Britain in 1908 and this text printed no later than 1920, so in the public domain in the United States (published before 1931); Project Gutenberg marks the ebook public domain in the USA. Wallas died in 1932, so the British term ended in 2003.

Chapters

1. [Preface](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/01-preface/)
2. [Preface to the Second Edition](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/02-preface-to-the-second-edition/)
3. [Preface to the Third Edition (1920)](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/03-preface-to-the-third-edition-1920/)
4. [Introduction](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/04-introduction/)
5. Part I: The Conditions of the Problem
6. [Part I, Chapter 1: Impulse and Instinct in Politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/05-part-i-chapter-1-impulse-and-instinct-in-politic/)
7. [Part I, Chapter 2: Political Entities](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/06-part-i-chapter-2-political-entities/)
8. [Part I, Chapter 3: Non-rational Inference in Politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/07-part-i-chapter-3-non-rational-inference-in-polit/)
9. [Part I, Chapter 4: The Material of Political Reasoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/08-part-i-chapter-4-the-material-of-political-reaso/)
10. [Part I, Chapter 5: The Method of Political Reasoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/09-part-i-chapter-5-the-method-of-political-reasoni/)
11. Part II: Possibilities of Progress
12. [Part II, Chapter 1: Political Morality](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/10-part-ii-chapter-1-political-morality/)
13. [Part II, Chapter 2: Representative Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/11-part-ii-chapter-2-representative-government/)
14. [Part II, Chapter 3: Official Thought](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/12-part-ii-chapter-3-official-thought/)
15. [Part II, Chapter 4: Nationality and Humanity](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/13-part-ii-chapter-4-nationality-and-humanity/)

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I have made hardly any changes in the book as it first appeared, beyond the correction of a few verbal slips. The important political developments which have occurred during the last eighteen months in the English Parliament, in Turkey, Persia, and India, and in Germany, have not altered my conclusions as to the psychological problems raised by modern forms of government; and it would involve an impossible and undesirable amount of rewriting to substitute 'up-to-date' illustrations for those which I drew from the current events of 1907 and 1908. I should desire to add to the books recommended above Mr. W. M'Dougall's *Social Psychology*, with special reference to his analysis of Instinct.

G.W.

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, CLARE MARKET, LONDON, W.C.,

*30th December 1909.*

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Human Nature in Politics, Graham Wallas. First published in Britain in 1908 and this text printed no later than 1920, so in the public domain in the United States (published before 1931); Project Gutenberg marks the ebook public domain in the USA. Wallas died in 1932, so the British term ended in 2003. [Provenance and rights](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/wallas-human-nature-in-politics-1908/).