Excerpt from Philanthropy and the State: Or Social Politics This appeared in the first place rather as feeling than as thought, and arose as a sense of need for national assistance in private charitable work. It was left to experience to demonstrate that a State which assists cannot refrain from exercising control. The change from philanthropy to social politics has been great, and the present volume seeks to illustrate the process. There has been some development in thought, but as yet we have no consistent doctrine of the relation of the State to the weaker classes of society (social pathology), and the work of assistance to these classes suffers in consequence. In the following pages I give illustrations of the bad practical results Of this lack Of a clear and consistent theory Of society. 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.