Download or read book The History, Present Position, and Social Importance of Friendly Societies written by Charles Hardwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History, Present Position, and Social Importance of Friendly Societies: Including Oddfellowship, and Other Affiliated Provident Institutions of the Working Classes; Comprising the Gradual Development of the Science Termed "Vital Statistics," a Popular Exposition of the Financial Laws Necessary to Insure Future Stability In 1854 there appeared a series of twenty letters, addressed by me to the Empire London newspaper, in which I further endeavoured to popularise the laws of finance as developed by the statistics compiled from the past experience of these societies. 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.