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Excerpt from English Social Movements
We do not, therefore, any longer need to go over the sea to learn about evil social conditions.
But, for the sake of a knowledge of what means may best be used toward remedying such condi tions, as well as of an apprehension of the noble feeling by which men are impelled to take up their social and political duties, it will be of great importance that we watch closely the remarkable progress England is making in these ways.
The observations and conversations from which the account is in large part made up were had during a stay of six months in London at Toynbee Hall, and in short visits afterward to the other leading English and Scotch cities. Wherever I went I met kind friends, to whose assistance I am greatly indebted. My especial thanks are due to the Rev. Samuel A. Barnett, Warden of Toynbee Hall; to the residents of Toynbee Hall; to Mr. William Clarke, of the Fabian Society; and to Mr. Vaughn Nash, of the (lo-operative Aid Association. I should be sorry, however, to have any person other than myself charged with mistakes of fact or opinion which I may have made. References to pamphlets and reports are seldom given; but so far as the recent literature of the subject is generally available, attention has been called to it.
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