Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Chapters on Social Sciences as Connected With the Administration of State Charities
The following pages are selected from papers originally con tributed to the annual reports of the Board of Public Charities of the State of Pennsylvania by the president of the Board. They appeared in those reports as published by order of the legislature in the years 1870 to 1874, inclusive. The writer has deemed it advisable to collect them into one volume for his own gratification and that of his friends, venturing to think that thus they may not be without some further utility.
It might have seemed desirable to recast and rewrite the whole, digesting what pertains to each of the subjects discussed into one consistent and continuous treatise adjusted to the present time. But this would have cost much labor, and would have been, in fact, the production of an entirely new work, and, especially, would have defeated a leading design of the writer in having this volume printed, - which was, to keep the whole in its original association with the past. It has been thought best, therefore, to leave the several chapters in their historical character, each with its proper date, appending such notes and explanations as may seem required by the state of the several questions at the present time.
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