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An Enquiry Into the Causes and Production of Poverty, and the State of the Poor; Together with the Proposed Means for Their Effectual Relief. by John

An Enquiry Into the Causes and Production of Poverty, and the State of the Poor; Together with the Proposed Means for Their Effectual Relief. by John

Vancouver, John

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General Sociology

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ISBN10: 1235720748
ISBN13: 9781235720741
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
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. 1796. Excerpt: ... neither here, nor hereafter, and blind to the consequences attendant on such a degradation of a free people to the state; this unhallowed system of petty tyranny, and uncontrouled oppression, is incautioufly pursued in the further extension and building of new bastiles. The numbers of free-born subjects, guiltless of crime, or even misbehaviour, are daily increasing within these pernicious walls; here are they doomed to perpetual imprisonment, and to the capricious lash of the contracting despot, who not only farms their maintenance at so much per head, like cattle, but insists on a complete surrender of all property in their labour, whether of corporeal strength, or mental faculty. To these baneful institutions must the necessitated man, his wife, and children repair, and be immured or starve. Here, soon will all family affection, all tender sympathies be obliterated, the national character be extinguished, and the father of a hardy race, become the parent of floth, and no longer the protector of his now puny, pilfering, subjugated family. There are few places in England, where, to the honor of the court of Guardians, the comforts of the poor, immured in the workhouses, are so diligently, so humanely attended to as in the City of Norwich; their provisions are of the best quality, and their treatment is of the kindest and most compassionate nature. Convinced of these circumstances, the mind naturally supposes the general management to be superior to the common practice in other places. This, most probably, on a due comparison being made, would be sound to be the case. Should the fact be thus established, it would amount to a truth not to be controverted, that radical defects existed in the system pursued, or the earnings of the people could not be so disp...

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