Excerpt from The Workingman and Social Problems During recent years many earnest men and women have surrendered lives of comparative luxury and given themselves to study and to work in settlement and city mission, in order to see and feel the actual conditions of the toilers in shop and tenement. This is a hopeful sign. The movement cannot but result in a better understanding between the masses and the classes. This little book is written with the hope that it may help in the work. It is written out of an experience which has not been altogether voluntary. It is also written largely from the standpoint of the man who is to be reached and helped. Some of the material used has appeared in the form of special articles in several periodicals, although in nearly every instance the articles have been considerably expanded. Chapters I, II, III, IV, and V were printed in the Sunday School Times, under the title which has been given to this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Readings in Social Problems: Edited With an Introduction The problem. Is now recognized, too, as a question of the quality, as well as the quantity, of population. The eugenics idea, whether or not it prove capable of development into a new science, the foundation for a new population policy, the con scious improvement of the human stock, - has Opened our eyes to some very present evils and dangers. It is unfortunate that our knowledge of the laws of heredity, which is the basis of eugenics, is so uncertain and fragmentary, and that the progress of investigation must necessarily be slow. Otherwise we might look for a rapid and at the same time sure progress of both theoretical and practical eugenics. Even with the advance of genetic psychology and experimental genetics much doubt must continue to exist with regard to the relative in uence of environ ment and heredity. The laymen may well await the verdict of time, also, as to the validity of the methods of investigation used by the biometricians of the Pearson school in England, and of Mendelism, upon which as a working hypothesis the investiga tions of the Eugenics Record Office,1 and most other American work, are being carried out. Meanwhile it is desirable to know what the problems of eugenics are, and what the difficulties in the way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."