Excerpt from The Revolt of Democracy During the whole of the nineteenth century there was a continuous advance in the application of scientific discovery to the arts, and especially in the inven tion and application Of labour-saving machinery and our wealth has increased to an equally marvellous extent. Various estimates which have been made of the increase in our wealth-producing power Show that, roughly speaking, the use of mechanical power has increased more than a hundredfold during the century; yet the result has been to create a limited upper class, living in unexampled luxury, while about one-fourth of our whole popu lation exists in a state of fluctuating penury. 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.