Pauperism: Its Causes and Remedies

by Henry Fawcett

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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ISBN-13:	9783382180973
Publisher:	Anatiposi Verlag
Publication date:	04/12/2023
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

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CHAPTER III. ON THE INCREASE OF POPULATION. In the previous chapters repeated allusion has been made to the evils which result from causes which produce an undue increase of population. The subject is one which peculiarly requires plain speaking; it is surrounded with an almost impenetrable mass of prejudice. With confidence, however, it can be asserted, that if in a country like England the possible increase of population is not adequately restrained by prudential habits, the general condition of the nation will become more and more unsatisfactory; and pauperism will assume more formidable proportions. Unless the generally recognised principles of economic science are a tissue of fallacies, it can be easily shown that no scheme of social improvement can be of permanent efficacy if it is unaccompanied by an increased development of providence amongst the general mass of the people. The truth of this is proved in a very striking manner by considering the effects whichhave resulted from free trade. If anyone refers to the speeches which were made during the anti-Corn-Law agitation by the prominent advocates of the movement, he will find that the most glowing anticipations were indulged in with regard to the consequences which would result from the abolition of protection. Mr W. J. Fox, who was perhaps at one time the most distinguished orator of the party, when addressing a large meeting in Covent Garden Theatre asserted that the abolition of protection would exterminate pauperism; and he predicted that in a few years the ruins of the workhouses would mark the extinction of protection just in the same way as the ruins of the baronial castles mark the destruction of feudalism. Nearlya quarter of a century has now elapsed since the adoption of free trade in corn, and the pre...