While it is traditionally expected of great leaders that they should shape history towards humanitarian aims, it is quite another matter to find that an ever-increasing number of ordinary people begin to demand a share in the responsibility, to such an extent that our community is honeycombed with peaceful and progressive movements of all kinds, in which young people are well to the fore. Miss Alder outlines the picture of past and present trends of human development. Secondly, she builds up a vision of what the future could be like - if humanity so chooses. Thirdly, she gives two practical courses of self-training, mental and physical, and finally, she outlines the progressive work already in existence, so that people may know where and how to dedicate their new strength.