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I have written these chapters in the few spare hours of six months of a busy life. Often days, and sometimes weeks, have passed between the composition of two consecutive sentences. With no prospect of greater leisure before me, I let my work go forth, although not in such completeness or strength as I should desire, in the hope that its pages, imperfect as they are, may stimulate thought and discussion upon what I conceive to be the subject which, above all others, demands the attention of the nation.
In the elucidation of the figures published by the Inland Revenue Department I have received the most valuable assistance from Sir Henry Primrose, Mr Bernard Mallet, and other officials at Somerset House. I gratefully acknowledge their kindness while making it clear that they are in no way responsible for my estimates of fact or statements of opinion. I have to thank Mr A. G. Gardiner, the Editor of the "Daily News," for permission to utilise in this work the substance of a number of articles which I have from time to time contributed to that paper. My acknowledgments are due also to Professor Edwin Cannan for a kindly suggestion which led to the construction of the tables presented in Chapter IV., and last, but not least, I have to thank my wife and Miss F. L. Westwood for their invaluable assistance in the investigation of fact and in the revision of proofs.
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