known to him, to whom he, too, is perhaps a revelation.

There will be a new wind blowing through England when this war is done.
Not only will the scientific intelligence, the general education, and the
industrial plant of the nation have gained enormously from this huge
impetus of war; but men and women, employers and employed, shaken perforce
out of their old grooves, will look at each other surely with new eyes, in
a world which has not been steeped for nothing in effort and sacrifice, in
common griefs and a common passion of will.


II

All over England, then, the same quadruple process has now been going on
for months:

The steady enlargement of existing armament and munition works, national
or private.

The transformation of a host of other engineering businesses into munition
works.

The co-ordination of a vast number of small workshops dealing with the
innumerable metal industries of ordinary commerce, so as to make them feed
the larger engineering works, with all those minor parts of the gun or
shell, which such shops had the power to make.

The putting up of entirely new workshops--National Workshops--directly
controlled by the new Ministry, under the Munitions Acts.