AND CONCERNING THE EVOLUTION OF JUSTICE BETWEEN THE LABORERS AND THE CAPITALISTS. BY J. N. LARNED. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1876. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. INTRODUCTORY. NOTHING ambitious has been attempted in this little book. The writer has not undertaken to construct a social theory, nor to solve the grave problems which are involved in the relations existing between labor and capital, by any copyrighted or patented formula whatsoever. He has simply tried to investigate-for his own satisfaction in the first instance the conditions under which the work of the world is done, and to do so with impartiality of feeling, as between the classes that contribute to it; to ascertain how far such conditions are conventional or arbitrary and how far they are naturally fixed; to discover, consequently, what readjustments appear practicable, and to learn, at the same time, what principles of justice are underlying the whole matter. He has aimed at nothing more, in a word, than to find the direction in which one may hopefully look for some more harmonious and more satisfactory conjunction of capital with labor than prevails in our present social state, by finding in what direction the rules of ethics and the laws of politi |