Show ECONOMIC Tract No XVI is the latest published by the Society for Political Education and is by Robt Giffen L I D President of the British Statistical Society It deals with the progress of the working classes during the last half i century The tract show a marked I improvement in the conditions of the laboring classes both in health and maetrial welfare Following I these great essentials to all progress it I shows an increase of education and a corresponding cor-responding decrease of crime while the I laboring classes are better fed better clothed and better housed It plainly shows what is only denied by the eulogists eulo-gists of times long since past that everything every-thing is better today whether the thing he spiritual moral or material and that mankind advances and does not go backward back-ward It is evolution and improvement it is progress |