Excerpt from The Science of Railways, Vol. 2 The question of corporations in our age is second to no other in the economy of life. Their methods and problems will be more and more studied with the lapse of time. They are matters which concern everyone, capitalist, manufacturer, merchant, banker, farmer, railroad employe and officer and owner. Only by understanding them can proper government be secured. Railroad companies are the greatest of all corporations save those of a public character. 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.