Chapter I: Front Matter

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE SOCIAL SCIENCE SERIES.

"'The Principles of State Interference' is another of Messrs. Swan
Sonnenschein's Series of Handbooks on Scientific Social Subjects.
It would be fitting to close our remarks on this little work with a
word of commendation of the publishers of so many useful volumes by
eminent writers on questions of pressing interest to a large number
of the community. We have now received and read a good number of
the handbooks which Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein have published in
this series, and can speak in the highest terms of them. They are
written by men of considerable knowledge of the subjects they have
undertaken to discuss; they are concise; they give a fair estimate
of the progress which recent discussion has added towards the
solution of the pressing social questions of to-day, are well up to
date, and are published at a price within the resources of the
public to which they are likely to be of the most
use."--_Westminster Review_, July, 1891.

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THE THEORY AND POLICY OF LABOUR PROTECTION.

BY DR. A. SCHAeFFLE

EDITED BY A. C. MORANT

_Translator of Schaeffle's_ IMPOSSIBILITY OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY, _Leroy-Beaulieu's_ THE MODERN STATE, _Laveleye's_ LUXURY, _etc._

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