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Brief Essays on Subjects of Social Economy, by T.L.

Brief Essays on Subjects of Social Economy, by T.L.

Lewin, Thomas

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ISBN10: 1151345059
ISBN13: 9781151345059
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... COLONIZATION AND EMIGRATION. I Have often wondered that a country possessing fine colonies in different parts of the world, and in which the great and pressing demand is for a supply of that very population whose excess in the parent state constitutes such serious and embarrassing considerations, as it has done in this country, should not long ago have adopted and carried into effect some well-advised scheme of colonization, so as, at the same time, to provide the means of selfsupport for such population, and by their employment to promote the welfare of the colony itself, with a view to its ultimate establishment as a prosperous and independent community. We have seen, in previous Essays, how such a population, either wholly unemployed or employed only at wages which are not sufficient for a man's maintenance, becomes reduced to the condition of a more or less degraded pauperism, too frequently manifesting the immoralities which such a state of dependence can scarcely fail to occasion, and which of course it must be as much the duty, as it certainly is the policy, of the government of a well-ordered community as much as possible to prevent. There is no condition of mankind in which the pressure of population against the means of support will not always constitute the grand difficulty of human life; verifying the primaeval doom, that man should eat his bread in the sweat of his face. If we must eat to live, so also must we live to eat; and the important problem accordingly must be how to provide the means by which employment may be made to keep pace with the increase of population, and so that every person born into the world may find the world ready and adequate to reward his industry by a sufficient maintenance. It is the purpose and object...

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