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Excerpt from Philanthropy and Social Progress Seven Essays In the session of 1892, all the studies in the department of Economics centred about the idea of social progress. The lectures of the first week traced the Changes in Economic Theory since the Time of John Stuart Mill. It was their purpose to leave the impression that the economist is gradually changing his point of view, and that political econ omy, while ceasing to be an industrial philosophy of a class, is coming to be a comprehensive philos Ophy Of industrial society. The second week'sviii Introduction. 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.