Chapter 2 Author's Preface

So long as social oppression by law and custom exists, artificially turning the world into a hell in the height of civilization and subjecting man's natural fortune to inevitable misfortune; as long as the three problems of this century—poverty Degrading men, degrading women by hunger, debilitating children by darkness—unresolved; as long as social poisoning is possible in certain areas, in other words, and in a wider sense, as long as the world If there is ignorance and hardship in the world, then no works of the same nature as this book will be useless.