Excerpt from Six Centuries of Work and Wages: A History of English Labor The failure to do this has been the supreme vice of most economic discussion. Economic truth finds her greatest foes not in absolute errors but in half-truths. By a judicious selection of their facts, writers, and sometimes even able scholars, have appeared to make history teach what they would. But such use of history is not history, but the prostitution of history to party zeal. Its offspring are but bastard children, though sometimes you may find them in court circles and high places of the aristocracy of letters. We need all the facts. 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.