Excerpt from Historical and Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1 of 2 Nge more it is my painful duty to bring out a work of Mr. Senior's which has not received his last corrections. These Essays were prepared for publication in the winter of the year 1862. The one on Combinations and Strikes is taken from the Report of the Handloom Weavers' Commissioners, drawn up by Mr. Senior in 1841. The other Essays have appeared in the form of articles in Reviews. There is one subject - Ireland - that largely occupied his thoughts and employed his pen, which is only incidentally mentioned in these pages. He had intended to put together his writings on Irish affairs in a separate volume; but this design was not fully carried into effect. Considerable additions by the Author will be found, especially in the first of these two volumes. 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.