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FACING
OLD AGE
SOME RECENT BORZOI BOOKS
IN DAYS TO COME
By Walter Rathenau
EARLY CIVILIZATION:
AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
By Alexander A. Goldenweiser
HUMAN NATURE IN POLITICS
By Graham Wallas
HOW ENGLAND IS GOVERNED
By Rt. Hon. C. F. G. Masterman
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
By James Mickel Williams
THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
By Dr. F. Müller-Lyer
THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
By James Mickel Williams
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FACING OLD AGE A STUDY OF OLD AGE DEPENDENCY IN THE UNITED STATES AND OLD AGE PENSIONS
BY
ABRAHAM EPSTEIN
Formerly Director Pennsylvania Commission to Investigate Old Age Pensions
NEW YORK ALFRED·A·KNOPF MCMXXII
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
Published, March, 1922
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“The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away.”—90th Psalm.
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