ABSTRACT
The planning authority would have to start with a survey of the present state of Great Britain and thence deduce its steps. Britain was the first nation to bring the machine to the assistance of man’s muscles, and throughout the nineteenth century she was the foremost exponent of the principle of the Industrial Revolution. The introduction of labour-saving machinery involves in the first place the displacement of hand labour and in the second place the production of articles in far greater quantities. Great Britain is largely organized as a trading nation. And Great Britain will start upon this period of progress with less of a handicap, and advance more rapidly, if international trade can be in some measure rescued from the chaos into which it has fallen in the last few years. Great Britain in the course of the present century has in many ways led the world in the provision of Social Services.
