Excerpt from Vicious Circles in Sociology and Their Treatment "Owing to their close interdependence, social evils often from a Vicious Circle, where evils become in their turn sources of evil." In these words Dr. Newsholme epitomises the subject which will be elaborated in the following pages. Although Vicious Circles play a rôle of great importance in sociology, this monograph is the first to deal with them systematically and claims the indulgence usually granted to the pioneer. Feci quod potui; melius faciat altey opus. This study of the Circle will, it is hoped, be of assistance to the social worker by emphasising the importance of analysing social problems into their constituent factors, and thus facilitating the discovery of the locus minoris resistentiœ at which the Circle can best be broken. Only when this has been done will the problem be effectually solved. As important is it for the sociologist as for the physician to be a philosopher. References to standard authorities have been freely introduced, so that the reader may have before him the evidence on which various propositions are based. Such independent testimony will carry greater weight than an individual opinion would be entitled to. My daughter Gladys has kindly read through the proof-sheets. 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.