Excerpt from Bismarck and State Socialism: An Exposition of the Social and Economic Legislation of Germany Since 1870 This volume is intended to be a sequel to a work which I completed two years ago, and which appeared with the title German Socialism and Ferdinand Lassalle: a Biographical History of German Socialistic Movements during this Century. In that work - the marked friendli ness of whose reception, both in England and Germany, was the more encouraging because not looked for - an endeavour was made to show how the seed of a politico economical Socialism had found its way to German soil, how it had germinated, how grown from plant to tree, and finally to describe the fruit which the tree had borne and is still bearing. 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.