Excerpt from The Labour Unrest: What It Is and What It Portends Looking back upon any great period of decisive change in history, we are apt to fall into an illusion of thinking, because we can survey it comprehensively, note its beginnings, follow its development, trace its consequences in the altered outlooks and institutions of the race, and see its significance in relation to the periods before and after, that the men of the time saw it with a comprehension like our own. We picture such periods of great change as being spectacular to the folk taking part in them; the orderly unfolding of a set drama, scene by scene in the deliberate sequence of the intention of the age. The changes which we see to have actually come about in the course of history we figure to ourselves as ends deliberately aimed at, shaped by the people of the period as builders shape their building to drawn plans. 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.