The Russell Predictions on the Working Class, the National Debt, and the New Poor Law, Dissected, EtcHatchard & Son, 1850 - 64 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 22 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders...
Σελίδα 22 - WHETHER we consider natural reason, which tells us that men, being once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat and drink and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence...
Σελίδα 24 - The law not only regards life and member, and protects every man in the enjoyment of them, but also furnishes him with every thing necessary for their support. For there is no man so indigent or wretched, but he may demand a supply sufficient for all the necessities of life from the more opulent part of the community, by means of the several statutes enacted for the relief of the poor, of which in their proper places.
Σελίδα 27 - But as they descend from the state to a province, from a province to a parish, and from a parish to a private house, they go on accelerated in their fall. They cannot do the lower duty; and, in proportion as they try it, they will certainly fail in the higher.
Σελίδα 23 - God, the Lord and Father of all, has given no one of His children such a property in his peculiar portion of the things of this world, but that He has given his needy brother a right to the surplusage of his goods, so that it cannot justly be denied him when his pressing wants call for it...
Σελίδα 32 - Commissioners, by order under their hands and seal, to declare so many parishes as they may think fit to be united for the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor, and such parishes shall thereupon be deemed a union for such purpose...
Σελίδα 22 - What these rights are it is not my business at present to explain; but there is one right which man has generally been thought to possess, which I am confident he neither does nor can possess — a right to subsistence when his labour will not fairly purchase it. Our laws indeed say that he has this right, and bind the society to furnish employment and food to those who cannot get them in the regular market; but in so doing they attempt to reverse the laws of nature...
Σελίδα 23 - By what right did they take upon them to enact certain laws (for the rich compose the legislative body in every country) which compelled that man to become a member of their society ; which precluded him from any share of the land where he was born, any use of its spontaneous fruits, or any dominion over the beasts of the field, on pain of stripes, imprisonment, or death? How can they justify their exclusive property in the common heritage of mankind, unless they consent in return to provide for...
Σελίδα 16 - My lords, those who framed the statute of Elizabeth were not adepts in political science, — they were not acquainted with the true principle of population, — they could not foresee that a Malthus would arise to enlighten mankind...
Σελίδα 24 - ... their situation, and in the way of affording assistance. And, therefore, when the partition of property is rigidly maintained against the claims of indigence and distress, it is maintained in opposition to the intention of those who made it, and to his, who is the Supreme Proprietor of everything, and who has filled the world with plenteousness, for the sustentation and comfort of all whom he sends into it.