Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook: Ten Lectures on Social Subjects

"Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook: Ten Lectures on Social Subjects" by Laurence Housman is a compilation of essays that dives into the social and governmental problems of the early 1900s. The book introduces the idea of transforming both people and political structures. Housman argues that it is important to look at individual morals and have an honest overview of your defects for society to get better. The author believed state and political systems were too relaxed with morals and, rather than acting in a virtuous way, were keeping bad societal behaviors alive. Housman presses the importance of fixing the way people see righteousness if we want to address society's moral collapse.