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t ' ' 9 ' lim ^^ lii ^ ^ fr r ^ w ^ w ^^ q $ «^ i w ^ en arrears h » y * »^ i » u \ ate 4 l ^ jr ^ «** n $ > $ Ile < i U' to ^ ^ jp iaijo oax ^ binaiio ^ , ib 4 dl $£ e if tbe mm f& $ * * & $ & * $ fctrpftj&ae 4 > f tte most jfrlgM ^ ul dejw ^ bti ^ jo ; ^ ' ^ j ^' llft & $ le ^ deav pur to ji § y exc ^ s&ive , or * & 6 & ! fa& '? kpte § n tfajg : * 9 * j » duj& $ d to jiy ^ en the ch eapest fipodr-4 ; he ^ atejtoe ; 43 ? at Uring tw i&e pot&t ^ e ^ vtbjects tli em to annual famine , to d ^ SEass , and ^ comiuit ^ l of tlieft ; That to accumulate is impossible , and beiiag unable t 0 provide ftg&t&St ifo ? contingencies to which they and tlieir famines are Jiable , a ** the . eyent .-of tbfeir death their widows and children l > e-
coixve AWti ^ ring b ^ ggars 3 co ^ traot idle and dissolute habits , mid ppjn ^ d ^ i& ^ e ^ nd immorality throughout the country ; ^ iBftt being unable , during health . and vigour , to provide agains *; . ftftRtitution in old ^ g « _ , aiid d isliking to Decome yagntnts , they i ^ miifac ^ early $ &d reck , lesf marriages , in the hope that tlvey may Jiave children to support them when they are unable t 6 WOrk 5
mtd thus ( he population ia rapidly increased ; . ^ TMt- - twio ( C MJQ ^ ble to retaw ^ r accumulate . capital , tJ ^ ey culjivaie tbeir lands under great disadvantage , by which the produce fe iitiilted in quantity , and of inferior quality , the Ja » W > r 4 is injured Jbv a dimiuution of his rents , and the labourer by a 4 iminut ^ oii of the fun d for employment ;
fjk&t bejuiff Jiept at the lowest state of earisteuce , they cannot J ^^ j » e . purc | kasers , and thus trade is materially repressed ; and , — Tpi&t j ^ ie people being driven to crime to retain their land * and dwdr feijiployyieut , persons of capital are thereby detetrted from t ^ bi ^ Axmg manufactures in the country . / J ^ i efc importaiit propositioufi are generally well sustaified . Upfjn every suitable occasion tlie author endeavours to « Vqw tiat ^ 11 tke&e evita , and many more , arise out of * ' iH ^ oii n ^ l re « t ^ wfeiah ovye tbeir existence to the absence of a provieum for the deatilut ^ . TJie temedy is next considered . A legal right to all who are destitute , Ve think , is very properly insisted on : — " To p * o < iuce the desired feeling of security , society mustenltire to
etery ta ? n' destitute of the means of providing k for him * elf , a j * rovisfon ; ki '^ he public expense , equal to the present * 4 ibii « t £ i > c * tk the peadi ^ ritry . Th « legislatu re must confer u pon « very man th « right to dtWafta the provi « ion . It must confer the right ; for if it je ffi any one *« * power to refuse the provieion , tha feeling of Beeyrity wIM not be jertttM / By its ftdmifibrtration it mupt provide- agalnti peroohs embracifig ' ^ in pTefer « nc « of working for a » ubf t « t * nc € j and it m « tvt pro-Vtd * equips * those who held land , or have employment , obtmtiiag it . The onfy mode of giving the security to every inan , withotft the Udan-J ftr Cf MgmliQg iaUj »« wi , and without , e * jk * p < lin > g ih ^ pipymp ' q ) those Who havft oVhex means , is by adnunisterin ^ it in a * y } timt . The ft-athtor supports his belief that tha vrtuhftufomft > t of hpusfs
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 514, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/54/
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