ON SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SUBJECTS. BY HENRY FAWCETT, M.P. PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY AND MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1872. [All Rights reserved.] Soc 550.50 Jan. 22, 1890. Harvard University. Social Questions Library MARVARD CALLES LIBRARY Transferred to Harnard College Library PREFACE. In the following pages my wife and I have collected some of the Essays and Lectures written or spoken by us within the last three or four years. Three of my Lectures, viz. those on "Modern Socialism," "The General Aspects of State Intervention," and "The Regulation of Hours of Labour by the State," formed the first part of a course which I delivered in the University of Cambridge in the Lent Term, 1872, on the Programme of the International Society economically considered. These Lectures have never before appeared in print. Two of my wife's Lectures, "Why Women require the Suffrage," and "The Education of Women," have also never been published. The other contents of the Volume have appeared from time to time in various journals and periodicals. We have, however, in some instances added a Postscript when recent events, bearing on the subject of the paper, seemed to make such an addition desirable. Each Essay and Lecture is signed with the initials of its author. We have endeavoured, as far as possible, to group the contents of the Volume according to the subjects of the papers. It was not easy in all instances to define the line of demarcation between economic, social, and political matters; but it will be found, speaking generally, that the first part of the Volume treats of economic subjects, the second of education, and the third of politics. I wish to add that the labour involved in editing the Volume has fallen entirely on my wife. HENRY FAWCETT. March, 1872. |