Excerpt from A False Equation: The Problem of the Great Trust In 1902 Brooks Adams published The New Empire. In 1903, before I had seen that work, I asked Mr. Adams to join me in the new under taking of unity in the instruction of the Law School of Boston University. He accepted, and from that time to this has been contributing of his great energy and other gifts to the desired result. I owe him a debt greater than I can pay, but not greater than I wish to acknowledge. 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.