Our Treatment of the Poor (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Our Treatment of the PoorThe interest which the questions dealt with in this volume are exciting at the present time seems to me to afford a sufficient excuse for its publication. The close of the present century is being marked by an outbreak of sentimentality on matters con nected with the relief of the poor which threatens to get the upper hand of sense. A similar outbreak occurred at the end of the last century, and its evil results are well known to all students of Poor Law history. These results, however, seem to be generally forgotten now, or, if they are remembered, it is argued that circumstances have entirely altered, and that while the interference of the State to do more than merely relieve destitution was undoubtedly wrong in the then state of society, it cannot have the same evil effects now that such an improvement in the condition of the working classes has taken.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.