If science could do this it would confer upon humanity an advantage far less equivocal than that which belongs to the present reign of iron and steam.
Sec.7.The Extent of Foreign Immigration .-- So much for the inflow from the country districts.

But there is another inflow which is drawing close attention, the inflow of cheap foreign labour into our towns.

Here again we have first to guard against some exaggeration.

It is not true that German, Polish, and Russian Jews are coming over in large battalions to steal all the employment of the English working-man, by under-selling him in the labour-market.

In the first place, it should be noted that the foreigners of England, as a whole, bear a smaller proportion to the total population than in any other first-class European state.