Excerpt from The Dance of Modern Society I do not, it will be seen, affect the candor either of ingenuous inquiry or of judicial neu trality. Much less do I affect the candor of a merely curious unconcern. I appear as an ad vocate, and I do not expect, as I shall not at tempt, to avoid the vehemeiice of advocacy. I volunteer my othee on behalf of several imper illed interests, all of them valuable, and one at least Vital. It is the cause at once of Health, of Economy, of the Social Nature, of Intellect ual Improvement, and of Morality, that I de fend. I undertake to implead the Dance in their joint behoof as the common and equal enemy of them all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.