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monographs dealing with this subject have been 

 published. Let me name, therefore, some of those 

 which could be consulted with profit : Dr. Fr. Zahn, 

 Wirtschajtliche EntwicJdung, unter besonderer Beriick- 

 sichtigung der Volkszahlung, 1905, sowie der Berujs 

 und Betriebszdhlung, 1907 ; Sonderabdruck aus der 

 Annakn des Deutschen Reichs, Munchen, 1910 and 

 1911 ; Dr. Josef Grunzel, System der Industriepo- 

 litik, Leipzig, 1905 ; and Der Sieg des Industrie 

 lismus, Leipzig, 1911 ; W, Sombart, " Verlagssyetem 

 (Hausindustrie) ", in Conrad, Handworterbuch der 

 Staatswissenschaften, 3te Auflage, Bd. VIII. ; R. van 

 der Borght, Benif, Gesellschaftliche Gliederung und 

 Betrieb im Deutsohen Reiche, in Vortrage der Gehe- 

 Stiftung, Bd. II., 1910; and Heinrioh Koch, Die 

 Deutsche Hausindustrie, M. Gladbach, 1905. Many 

 other works will be found mentioned by these authors. 



In. all these books the reader will find a further 

 confirmation of the ideas about the small industries 

 that are expressed in chapters vi. and vii. When I 

 developed them in the first edition, of this book, it 

 was objected to me that, although the existence of a 

 great number of small industries is out of question, 

 and although their great extension in a country so 

 far advanced in its industrial development as England 

 was not known to economists, still the fact proves 

 nothing. These industries are a mere survival ; and 

 if we had data about the different classes of industry 

 at different periods, we should see how rapidly the 

 small industries are disappearing. 



Now we have such data for Germany, for a period 

 of twenty-five years, in the three censuses of 1882, 

 1895, and 1907, and, what is still more valuable, these 

 twenty-five years belong to a moment in the life of 

 Germany when a powerful industry has developed on 



