Excerpt from Subjects of Social Welfare The selected articles in this volume are confined to subjects of social welfare. There is one exception of a scientific character, in which an attempt is made to explain the causes of sleep. That paper was written many years ago, but it has required only a few sentences to bring it up to the knowledge which we now possess. The other articles are of a more recent date, and discuss subjects of national interest. I have carefully revised them so as to adapt the subject matter to the existing position of the im. 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.