LECTURES PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS

Mysticism and Democracy in the English Commonwealth" is the collective title of a series of lectures by R. M. Jones '01, Professor of Philosophy in Haverford College, which have been published this week by the University Press. The group was delivered here as the William Belden Noble lectures of 1931.

In this book Professor Jones brings out the close connection between the religious movements of the Commonwealth Period in England and the political issues which were then being settled. He points out what an important epoch it was for the maturing of the religious life of England, and equally so for its bold experiments in popular self-government; these were first tried in the democratic religious sects and then carried out into wider areas of the State. Using this period as an example, the writer shows that democracy will never be a true success without a deep moral and religious background in the lives of the people who compose the democratic government.

Professor Jones is a prominent educator and author of many books on theological and philosophical subjects. He was graduated from Haverford College, and after studying at the University of Heidelberg, he received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1901 and D.D. in 1922. In the same year he received the degree of LL.D. from both Swarthmore and Haverford. He is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, president of the board since 1916, and of Brown University, while he has held his present professorship since 1904.