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liW ^ Ut /^ d d ^^ Hty , be wttithig ? What tot * b * d 6 oeiifwthe ^ yfey tsfatter , * tttt ; 4 rifrtiteher'l are becbmhi ^ Bubduwi by atf ^^ cf wfefth th £ ptn khAokt refuses to describe f what «( that ttfflftfofrabd shall become a conspiracy against th * hews of tte < &un ^ tittd the decenci es of feoeiety , if parents are early taught after hate their
B ^ awW' ^ to be mentioned ) to children ? ? How c&n tW intelligence of a citizen , or the forwardness of a » patriot * be expe&ed atnong such degenerate hordes ! . : ^ ; * If th 6 ctee ? shall appear extreme , the depravity irrecoverable ; J& 4 Until all means of improvement have been tried and found unavailing , let us not despair . The class in cities ^ which may be rftylfed * hewers of wood and drawers of water / meaning those having a precarious subsistence by employments beneath that of
the artisan , these can scarcely come under our cognizance : -they at > peare < l in fearful potency in the former Parisian revolution ; but this class having among us no authorized place of rendezvous , beftig' attached to no factory , under no head , and responsible only iirifcSir customer of the hour , these can scarcely be bixtoght under
toW supervision made with a view to the bettering of their educa * tfim . But the village day-labourers are at least living within tanks ; eHfr b& ^ brbUght together at a caD , are under the eye of their ^ peribw , ^ and have , at least , one superior ( the village pastor ) raroltfr ^ tliem . Let the village poor be never dismissed fromtfa ^ ftfhitft ^ ^ dheme of the public weal . But has it 0 < Sme to'pasa that thcrie Virtues , self-planted and of easy growth , are * mw in want df H awil in which to flourish ? » ,
-- * Theex ellent Bishop Hooker observes ( on Church Government 4 &j £ hy that without sufficient food and clothing we cannot attend ftf 4 h £ "relations of society nor the interests of religion . On this iiWffidrify , therefore , proof of the utterly destitute condition of the tlMs ^ of day-labourers wo u ld have great weight in deciding the "ijfflf&tidti of their moral debasement . * Now what can weigh Jmji&t the fact , proved to the satisfaction of the most enlightened pam ^ i& of the agriculturist , that quarter acres , and less parcels
* f i&iMf ; leased out to the p 6 or at the full rent paid by land in the jttwUMyuiltObd , and submitted to spade-labour , being worked after tlieWnifs of service , or in the intervals when the labourer is not fiii ^ d bt itfWi irmjplOyment ; that thiB little property is Sufficient ; to Vfitfft ^ He rent and td keep the labourer ' s famil y from the aecu ^ tfeoracL ^ ritotiitefe ^ -the parish rates ? Again : teke the average Waj ^ Vyf t | da ^ -labourer , viz ., 12 » . per week , with a total ceaaatio * t ^ 'lSm ^ iltif ^ or feottiething leed than MKf . pfer ] # i ^ t fhrbug * the year , ( reckoning to the extra ifm at M&tot m * fy aid eomtder the weekly outgoings for a ^^ i&iiy of I&e iWINtiafi : &v& ; Hs . ^ d . ; bre ^ d , at ^ quartern per day > 4 # , ^ USfm ^ Wi pit wtNek forfcod beyond the * y Wad ami drthir ti $ m ^* £ ^ W ' ii&He ^ tt ^^ It ^> ttl ( t W < ti | B « dt
^ 8 t # Btportt of Um < A c rienltand Empldyment SocMjr / paWbW by Eidgw ^ v .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 680, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/52/
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