Excerpt from The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism and Laissez Faire The friend to whom I owe most has not lived to see the publication of a volume in which she was keenly in terested. Both in collecting materials and in the arrange ment and composition of the book I had constant assistance from Miss Lamond of Girton College. I think she knew I was not ungrateful, but I only learned to appreciate her help aright when I lost it. She had a wonderfully high standard of accuracy and thoroughness in work of every kind, and an infinite capacity for taking pains to finish things 06 pro perly. Twenty sheets were printed 06 some time before the rest of the book, but no portion of the proofs had the advantage of her care in revision. 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.