Excerpt from The Irresponsible Five: A New Family CompactIt a government commission had issued a report upon boiler-making, newspaper printing, the manu facture of brick, or any one of the different processes that make up the industrial life of a civilised country, an analysis of that report would devolve, naturally, upon the men in the industry dealt with by the re port. These things are technical, and only the men engaged in the specific industry reported upon, are in a position to analyse the report. The old adage that a shoemaker should stick to his last, contains, at least, this element of truth: that no one but the shoemaker knows much about a last.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.