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Excerpt from Readings in English Social History From Contemporary Literature, Vol. 4: 1603-1688
IT is a truism that every great political upheaval is followed by a keener and livelier interest on the part of statesmen and the people generally in the social and industrial ques tions that, phoenix-like, arise and demand settlement.
The upheaval caused by the war has focussed the atten tion Of the country upon the necessity for improving the social conditions of the people; and for many years to come legislation in the main will have to deal with the better ment of the conditions Of life in its broadest and fullest aspect.
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