Excerpt from The Burden of the City It is not within the province of this volume to settle these problems. The reader will close it, perhaps, with a sense of unrest deeper than that with which he began. But if, with the unrest, there comes also a deeper sense of responsibility, the book will not have failed of its mission. Its problems may be problems still, but when the conscience of society is aroused regarding any wrong there is hope for its betterment. Time is not lost in considering problems, as such. A wise professor once said in his class room, If I had a problem in mathematics to solve, and my life depended upon my solving it within five minutes, I should spend the first three in reading it. There has been much ecclesias tical and philanthropic tinkering with conditions of whose real meaning and cause the tinkerers were as ignorant as babes. Not until we under stand something of the inter-relations of poverty, sin, ignorance and false social standards, can we. 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.