I have called this collection of fugitive pieces "e;Unpopular Opinions,"e; partly, to be sure, because to warn a person off a book is the surest way of getting him to read it, but chiefly because I have evidence that all the opinions expressed have in fact caused a certain amount of annoyance one way and the other. Indeed, the papers called "e;Christian Morality,"e; "e;Forgiveness"e; and "e;Living to Work"e; were so unpopular with the persons who commissioned them that they were suppressed before they appeared: the first because American readers would be shocked by what they understood of it; the second because what the Editor of a respectable newspaper wanted (and got) was Christian sanction for undying hatred against the enemy; the third-originally intended for a Sunday evening B.B.C. "e;Postscript"e;-on the heterogeneous grounds that it appeared to have political tendencies, and that "e;our public do not want to be admonished by a woman."e;