This book, described variously by the author as a child\'s guide to politics, a primer of citizenship, the rudiments of rulership, is the final fruit of his long political experience, which began with his plunge into Socialism, 60 years before. The work is undeniably of historical interest first and foremost - and yet it is also curiously apposite today. He attributes our catastrophic political failures to simple ignorance of political science and not to natural depravity and maintains that such ignorance is curable by political education