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LONDON'S UNDERWORLD 1 LONDON'S UNDERWORLD by Thomas Holmes (Secretary of the Howard Association) (1912) * 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org LONDON'S UNDERWORLD 2 PREFACE I am hopeful that some of the experiences given in the following chapters may throw a little light upon some curious but very serious social problems. Corporate humanity always has had, and always will have, serious problems to consider. The more civilised we become the more complex and serious will be our problems--unless sensible and merciful yet thorough methods are adopted for dealing with the evils. I think that my pages will show that the methods now in use for coping with some of our great evils do not lessen, but considerably increase the evils they seek to cure. With great diffidence I venture to point out what I conceive to be reasons for failure, and also to offer some suggestions that, if adopted, will, I believe, greatly minimise, if not remove, certain evils. I make no claim to prophetic wisdom; I know no royal road to social salvation, nor of any specific to cure all human sorrow and smart. But I have had a lengthened and unique experience. I have ......