Excerpt from The Strength of the People: A Study in Social Economics
In writing a Preface to a Second Edition an author would naturally wish to meet all the objections which have been raised against the first. But where the subject of the book is so liable to controversy as in the present case, that is hardly possible. Most of the criticisms brought against it, so far as they are important, seem due to a difference of experience which cannot be removed except by more experience on the one side or the other. One criticism there is which seems to me hardly justified, and which has presented itself in various forms. It may be summed up by saying that I have not offered solutions for all the industrial and social problems of the day, and that the statesman seeking instruction as to the best way of ameliorating "conditions" will seek it in vain in the following pages. Such an objection has misunderstood the scope of the book.
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