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ESSAYS
ON
SOCIAL REFORM
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AN INQUIRY INTO SOCIALISM.
By THOMAS KIRKUP,
Author of the Article on ‘Socialism’ in the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica.’
‘A very thoughtful and sympathetic study of the modern socialisticmovement, with the history of which the author has a very thoroughacquaintance.’—Contemporary Review.
‘We have no hesitation in describing this as the clearest statement wehave read of the aims and methods of Socialism.’—Westminster Review.
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PRACTICABLE SOCIALISM
ESSAYS ON SOCIAL REFORM
BY THE
REV. AND MRS. SAMUEL A. BARNETT
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET
1888
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The following Essays have been written at differentintervals during our fifteen years’ residence in EastLondon. They were written out of the fulness of themoment with a view of giving a voice to some need ofwhich we had become conscious. They do not, therefore,pretend to set forth any system for dealing withthe social problem; they are simply the voice of the dumbpoor, of whose mind it has been our privilege to getsome understanding. They are published now in responseto the requests of many to whom they have beensome guide in the ways of service, and in the hopethat the experience they offer may bring rich and poortogether. It will be noticed that two or three greatprinciples underlie all the reforms for which we ask.The equal capacity of all to enjoy the best, the superiorityof quiet ways over those of striving and crying, characteras the one thing needful are the truths with w