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386. THE WORKPIpUSE VISITING SOCIETY.
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and elevated to the maximum of disagreeableness . So far so good , or we should have all St . Giles riding through life on the back of
St . James , much as Sinbad was treated by the old Man of the Sea . _" We believe we have stated the case quite fairly , as it lies a heavy
load on the mind of many an honest ratepayer , guardian , and question Inspector — of Are the Poor other -Law human Board beings . But than now such comes as those the mentione terrible d
any above—are any others shut up in these abodes of political-economical discomfort ? Does no one
6 Enter here , and leave all hope behind no but dence crac peop ? ks le I in s who socie the floor t are y so of forced well the , upper so to reli enter storey gious by ly t their hroug organised own h whic fault , that h unfortuna or there improvi are tes
can be falling , falling , falling to the regions below ? Does the law lations protect insure all alike that from none the be hand guiltlessl of the y smi spoiler tten ? and th incurable do sanitary disease regu ? -
Does foreign warfare , or shipwreck on the high seas ; does fire hy ni Cho ght lera , or the the thunderbolt lurkinsna by k e called ; does Fever the dread leave fiend none , whose widows name an is d
, g , fatherless , homeless on the face of the earth—except for the _Pai-ish Workhouse ?
If they do so , what then ought our "Workhouses to be ? This double roblem is by no means easy to solve ; perhaps in no
case can a distinct p unfailing theory be laid down by which a nation can settle moral problem relating to its own internal government ;
the authority any of the Church , long-winded deductions from variorum editions of the contrat social , and the simple suggestions of charity ,
are alike futile before the enormous needs of our pauper population , composite of 600 , 000 souls . "We are not blessed with the virgin
soil of America , nor with the gentle climate , scanty population , and p attention amp eop le le reli in our g particularl ious ow provisions n way among , and of the Rome ladies subject ; who we is have engag with to i means n deal g more with and our leisure more own
can take , up each a y portion of this , multiform , burden . . To gather , the aged and the crile into some asylum of appropriate ease ; to
give the orphan a fair pp start in life ; to apply the test of labor with individual fitness to those who can work , can only be done by a share
of local wisdom in each metropolitan or provincial parish . The workhouse is a depdt of every kind of human misfortune . We must
try and reduce its miseries to some sort of classification , and to remedy them piece-meal by methods suitable to each _separate class .
It is horrible to huddle them all together into one hopeless conglomeration domestic , where servant , in walking the former down prostitute the long the wards peasant , we see 's wife the beds the invalid of the
governess , and , a dozen other victim , s of different distress , ranged sadlside bsidewhile able-bodied men and women exemplify that
" Satan y finds y some , mischief still for idle hands to do ; " and we are
386. The Workpipuse Visiting Society.
386 . THE WORKPIpUSE VISITING SOCIETY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/26/
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