Excerpt from Corporations and the State The first six chapters of this Volume contain the sub stance Of a series of lectures delivered on the George Leib Harrison Foundation at the University of Penn sylvania in the months Of November and December, 1910. The final chapter has been added since the de cisions in the Standard Oil and American Tobacco Trust Cases were rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States, and aims to give an interpretation Of these decisions and to forecast their probable effect upon the problem Of regulating corporations in the future. 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.