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    POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CHRISTIANITY. 295

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    cap , poor is invested Wh . y should in some it appear which so ? Is Sometimes in itself prejudicial because and the unjust capital , way

    inconsistent as Sometimes in the case alike of becaus a with slaveholding e Christianity there are community oth and er political conditions . economy of society , and

    these false conditions have the effect of making a law unsound in itselfto work beneficently .

    , appear Let To illustrate us imagine the a firs law t proposition passed in the : — Southern States of North of ital in

    Americadiscouraging the investment cap negroes . nei It must hbour , be Yes a rig but hteous the ri thing hteousness to prevent should cruelty go deeper to one still ' s . g

    As g deep as . a sound , political economy would go , and alter the whole The prohibitory system _hy act which can onl law y and appear injustice delightful are synonymous to the dim- . of such darkness

    sihtedbecause there is another evil appalling that g The the second , smaller reason evil in for its an presence apparent ital shines wisdom finds like actual and virtue kindness illustration . in

    in discourag the beneficent ing the investment working of of the cap " Ten , Hours' Bill , ' and of in coal mines

    Wh the at Act is are it forbidding that the other there conditions should women "be to women of be society emp found loyed as willing regards to women lavish ? .

    livelihood their How streng so th degrading thus unreservedl ? Is there y , willing no other to adopt the reas a on mean than s of a

    feebler constitution for the greater poverty , more abject leg which wretchedness islation is not of of the of women God country ' s than creating which choic of ? men p of laces Is ; there or any is ther artificial nothing of e some livelihood in barrier cause the ?

    between Any departments human women cause of labour and for where the their crushing women e , tramp seek such a emp means ling loyment pressure neither ? in Whilst those wise

    political the wonder answers economy if to anomalies these nor a questions kind should Christianity occur are the would as natural dictate growth a , is of it

    hindrances under of any a ten -lying hours before evils ' bill ? women . Such Law in an their and anomal custom attemp y is , the ts have to beneficent earn placed a livelihood so working many ,

    that death when in seeking at las to t women live , government have blindly has worked becom of its e themselve appalled and s to

    has But endeav the remed oured y does to counteract not help the the effects class it is desi own gned injustice to there help is . , their needs The is a stagnant one

    as require . measure ;

    Political Economy And Christianity. 295

    POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CHRISTIANITY . 295

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/7/