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the framers of the laws which they are to obey , and the more able to carry that determination into effect , whatever may be the misguided and vain opposition of the aristocracy . For the people generally to have a thorough confidence in the direction of the workings of the state machine to their benefit .
a revision of the system of local authority and magistracy is indispensable . Popular election might , to a large extent , be advantageously substituted for arbitrary appointment . The choice would assuredly not fall on men who would do more mischief than have the holders of his Majesty ' s commission . And there would be the prospect of better feelings than the suspicion and hostility , the endeavour to circumvent , on the one side , and on the other to bribe or terrify , which now prevail .
6 . An organized plan , a permanent provision for emigration , is the final measure of our enumeration . A portion of the resources of the community should be devoted to this purpose . There is no reason why emigration should be the solitary , irregular , painful , and perilous expatriation which it now is . It should be more like the colonization of the republics of antiquity . It should be considered as the locating of a portion of the nation elsewhere , fot
the common benefit of those who go and those who stay ; and be provided for accordingly from the common stock . Care should be taken to secure as far as possible to the colony , all the advantages of the mother country . The aversion with which emigration is now regarded might thus be very much mitigated , probably obliterated altogether . There would be no need to seek the means of subsistence , beyond the outposts of civilized life . There would
simply be a removal from a part of the country filled to its limits , to another part ( the same in almost all that endears country ) with limits so ample , as to allow indefinite expansion . Organized colonization is as the natural process in the growth of the tree , shooting afar its spreading boughs ; and if now and then they strike an
independent root in the soil , no matter , or rather so much the better ; while isolated emigration is but the blowing about of broken twigs , and leaves , and blossoms , mostly to perish , though sometimes there may be a seed which after all its tossing finds a propitious rest , and germinates .
Were such a process as this adopted , the principle of the Poor Laws might be left untouched ; as we would have it left , for it is as noble a principle , as ever legislation consecrated . It is , in our opinion , good , that the law should recognise that every man who comes into the world has aright to his share of the world , so far
at least as the means of subsistence go . The best mode of sustaining and administering that right , is another matter . We are not speaking of churchwardens and overseers , of parish rates and acts of parliament , but of principles . Society has a claim on the services of its members , and its members have a claim for support , so long a » ike common stock holds out . If one class of mankind
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374 Poor Laws and Paupers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/14/
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