A detailed industrial census having been taken in 1907, in addition to those of 1882 and 1895, most important and quite reliable data showing the importance and the resistance of the small industries were brought to light, and a series of most interesting monographs dealing with this subject have been published. Let me name, therefore, some of those which could be consulted with profit: Dr. Fr. Zahn, _Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Volkszählung_, 1905, _sowie der Berufs und Betriebszählung_, 1907; _Sonderabdruck aus der Annalen des Deutschen Reichs_, München, 1910 and 1911; Dr. Josef Grunzel, _System der Industriepolitik_, Leipzig, 1905; and _Der Sieg des Industrialismus_, Leipzig, 1911; W. Sombart, “Verlagssystem (Hausindustrie)”, in Conrad, _Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften_, 3te Auflage, Bd. VIII.; R. van der Borght, _Beruf, Gesellschaftliche Gliederung und Betrieb im Deutschen Reiche_, in _Vorträge der Gehe-Stiftung_, Bd. II., 1910; and Heinrich Koch, _Die Deutsche Hausindustrie_, M. Gladbach, 1905. Many other works will be found mentioned by these authors. In all these books the reader will find a further confirmation of the ideas about the small industries that are expressed in chapters vi. and vii. When I developed them in the first edition of this book, it was objected to me that, although the existence of a great number of small industries is out of question, and although their great extension in a country so far advanced in its industrial development as England was not known to economists, still the fact proves nothing. These industries are a mere survival; and if we had data about the different classes of industry _at different periods_, we should see how rapidly the small industries are disappearing. Now we have such data for Germany, for a period of twenty-five years, in the three censuses of 1882, 1895, and 1907, and, what is still more valuable, these twenty-five years belong to a moment in the life of Germany when a powerful industry has developed on an immense scale with a great rapidity. Here it is that the dying out of the small industries, their “absorption” by the great concerns, and the supposed “concentration of capital” ought to be seen in full. But the numerical results, as they appear from the three censuses, and as they have been interpreted by those who have studied them, are pointing out to quite the reverse. The position of the small industries in the life of an industrial country is exactly the same which could have been foreseen twenty-five years ago, and very often it is described in the very same words that I have used.