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He did not attempt too much; and he recognized one principle, which, as yet, the administrators of the new Poor-Laws have not sufficiently discovered. One main object of the new code was, by curbing public charity, to task the activity of individual benevolence.
What government can do, therefore, is to maintain such institutions as may strengthen the vis medicatrix, or 'desire to better our condition, which poor-laws had directly tended to weaken.
Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be 'farmed, or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week.
If the poor will not take advantage of the provision, or the machinery is not well oiled and worked by the officials, the remedy lies in greater wisdom on the part of the poor, and supervision of officials not in further legislation. But what do you mean by our poor-laws bearing heavily on the aged?" "I mean that the old people should be better cared for, simply because of their age.
Here, too, is to be found the source of the infidel opinions which call for suppression. London is a hotbed of corruption; a centre of wealth; and yet, in spite of poor-laws, a place where wretches are dying of starvation, and which could collect a mob capable of producing the most appalling catastrophes.
On that subject I do not see the difficulties which beset the propositions in the regard of the Poor-laws." Now it is the very reverse. He sees difficulties in reclaiming the waste lands of Ireland, but finds none in putting into operation the most objectionable part of the Poor-Law system outdoor relief; for, his Labour-rate Act was, substantially, a gigantic system of outdoor relief.
Schools there were none save the grammar schools of Edward and Elizabeth. The rural peasantry, who were fast being reduced to pauperism by the poor-laws, were left without moral or religious training of any sort. 'We saw but one bible in the parish of Chedda, said Hannah More, at a far later time, 'and that was used to prop a flower pot. p. 707, Harpers' ed. 1870.
It is only those semi-clerical beings who seem to unite with a singular grace all the weaknesses of both the sexes who persist in the attempt. Then, too, all the ideas of the parochial world become feminine; the parish buzzes with woman's hatred of the Poor-laws, and contempt for economic principles and hard-hearted statisticians.
He had ridiculed the pretensions of government to fix the rate of wages; and had shown how the poor-laws defeated their own objects. This was the really offensive ground to the political Radicals.
It was one of the poor people of the village, going her rounds for her weekly dole of a handful of oatmeal. I knew her very well by sight and by name she was old Eppie and a kindly greeting passed between us. I thank God that the frightful poor-laws had not invaded Scotland when I was a boy.
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