Excerpt from Our Methods of Legislation and Their Defects When we take into consideration that modern society has been reorganized by what has taken place within eighty years, that the growth of wealth has advanced at a rate fifty fold as compared to its growth anterior to this century; as to population, fourfold to what it was anterior to this century; and corporations have multiplied a hundredfold within the same time, and that all this brings upon the legislative body, however pure it may be, a pressure for special rights and a corresponding disregard of general rights quite beyond any proportion to what existed anterior to this century - it seems quite inexplicable why that differentiation which has taken place in every well-constituted factory, in every well-consti tuted department of human industry of any description, has not taken place in our legislation, and that our community has not deemed it necessary to erect bulwarks against this pressure of special interests. 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.