The Sufficiency of a Parochial Systems, Without a Poor Rate, for the Right Management of the Poor Volume 20 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...simply from being looked to through the mists of controversy. It is thus that the veriest truisms of plain and everyday experience are made to appear as the precarious conclusions of a precarious, if not a wholly untenable hypothesis; and which yet detached from that hypothesis or anterior to the promulgation of it, were as implicitly received as are any the most incontrovertible maxims of common prudence or common housewifery. That marriage should be delayed till there is the fair prospect of a sufliciency both for its present and subsequent expenses, and that it is all the more respectable to have a high notion of this sufliciency rather than a low one-these are propositions, which, apart from science or speculation altogether, will be recognised in the immediate light of their own evidence, and not only recognised but acted on by every well-trained and well-educated population, whether by the members of a household or the families of a parish. There is no need of any larger surveys to warrant or to guide the only proceedings by which the right and desirable result can alone be realized. The patent way is to train and educate the people; and the economical blessings which follow this process will be equally sure, whether we take account or not of a whole country or a whole world's population. 3. But whatever opinion may be held on the philosophy of Malthus, (in our view as irrefragable as the most rigid demonstration, ) and whether the law of pauperism tend to an undue increase of the population or not-there are certain other of its tendencies from which it may be shown, on the surest and clearest principles of Political Economy, that the strictly unavoidable consequences of the law. wearing though it does an aspect of benignity to the poor, must be ...