Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1900, Vol. 63 Yet, whatever the future may bring in this respect, there is no doubt that of late years both sides of the Atlantic can. Point to excellent results in matters of commerce. On every side, the past few years have enabled us to see what can be obtained by the restless striving and genius of humanity. Everywhere the commercial interests of the nations become more and more predominant, everywhere it becomes more and more evident that commerce is the greatest of all interests, everywhere we see the nations endeavour to turn to account the produce of their soil, employing steam and electricity to develop their industry, to establish relations with unexplored regions of the globe, to secure their share of the world's trade. 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.