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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI am greatly indebted to The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California, for sponsoring my work with the help of a most generous grant given by Mr Laurance S. Rockefeller.When my book was at the half-way stage, the members of the Center discussed it with me for several days, challenging me with their comments, questions and criticism to think anew and try to find new questions where there were no old answers. I am indebted to all of them, especially to Robert M. Hutchins, Harry S. Ashmore, W. H. Ferry, Stringfellow Barr, Elisabeth Mann Borghese, Scott Buchanan, John R. Seeley, Harvey Wheeler and John Wilkinson.Professor Dennis Gabor, FRS, gave me the first encouragement to undertake this work and used his prestige and world-wide connections to help me in every way. I am particularly grateful to him and to Martha Gellhom, Anthony Godwin and Richard Dunsmore for reading and rereading the MS and for their constructive criticism. I am also most grateful to Professor J. A. G. Griffith, London School of Economics, Dr Szabolcs de Vajai, UNESCO (Paris), Dr Louis Henry, Inst. Nat. d'Etudes Démographiques (Paris), Adrian Cristobal (Manila), Charlotte Fiedler (Hamburg), Shintaro Ishihara (Tokyo), Michael Rossman (Berkeley), K. Sinha (Calcutta), Simon Vinkenoog (Amsterdam), Dr D. W. von Essen-Zeeman, International School of Philosophy (Ammersfoort) and to Drs Carmen and Gary Yuen-Kong (Hongkong).Lastly I wish to express my respect and gratitude to a great many young people who gave me courageous help but who do not want to be named.J.j^