Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 143 It will be advisable here to sketch the history of these congresses for two reasons. In the first place they account in great measure for the intelligent interest in social work which may be said to be the rule among the Catholics of Germany. And secondly they enable us to trace the gradual and orderly growth of the various specific social organiza tions which might otherwise bewilder us by their number and complexity. 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.