[5] This offered a series of essays and responses from different authors on subjects such as science or religion, collected together and published as a single structured debate.[7] Although it generally lived up to its reputation as a 'neutral ground', the magazine did at times abandon impartiality to support positions dear to Knowles himself.To emphasise this change, a two-headed Janus-symbol of an old man and a young woman (the former representing the nineteenth century and the latter the twentieth) was added to the cover.[10] Knowles was prevented from simply renaming it The Twentieth Century because the copyright to that name was already owned by someone else, who allegedly demanded a ransom for the rights to use it.B. Dewar[18] 1925–1930 – Carrol Romer[19] 1930–1934 – Charles Reginald Schiller Harris[20] 1934–1938 – Arnold Wilson[21] 1938–1946 – Frederick Augustus Voigt[22] 1947–1952 – Michael Goodwin[23] 1952–195?
Front cover of the magazine in September 1905, featuring the Janus symbol adopted after 1901
