Excerpt from The Story of British Trade and Industry IN the following pages I have endeavoured to sketch in outline the leading features of the History Of British Trade and Industry. It has necessarily meant a rigid compression of facts, and has left little room for comment or deduc tion still, the narrative will be found, I trust, to present sufficient of regular sequence to enable it to be followed with interest and those who desire to investigate particular points more fully can easily do so by turning to special books covering those points. At a time like the present, when so many are halted, as it were, at the fiscal cross roads, um certain as to the way to take - tether back ward Or forward, or along some hazily defined middle course - it is well that the lesson Of the industrial past should be studied, and if the story as here set down should act in some slight degree as an incentive to that study its purpose will have been served. 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.