Excerpt from Four Lectures on the Law of Employers Liability at Home and Abroad We were once a nation of shopkeepers, and our ideas corresponded with our vocation. \ve are now, so far as we have not all gone upon the Stock Exchange, a vast industrial enter prise, carried on by night as well as day, by shifts of men, and amidst the hideous hum of machinery. The problems that to-day demand solution, if justice is to be done between man and man, require wider views and a set of ideas which never crossed the minds of the Temple-bred judges of the last generation, who, perched on high, and usually amenable to no more searching tribunal than two of their Brethren sitting in Banco, not only inter preted with an easy mind contracts between employers and their workmen, but read into those contracts terms and provisions of which neither of the contracting parties had ever heard, and few of them even yet understand. 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.