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Excerpt from The Principles of Population, and Their Connection With Human Happiness, Vol. 2 of 2
Variation of Public opinion on the subject of legal relief for the Poor Statement of the Question - Slavery unitersal in early times - lt constitutes the transition from the indolence of Savage to the continued labour of Civiliz cd Life Provides for the Subsistence of the Destitute in these periods - Legal relief for destitute indispensable where society has assumed a complex form Causes which there render it unavoidable - Principal one is the great inequali ty of Property And it is nearly universal where such inequality exists Ad vantages of such an assessment - lt equalizes the burden on the community Prevents the Poor from being utterly degraded in their habits-tends to di minish the prevalence of fraud and imposition And to prevent the growth of a vicious and degraded population - Provides a fund capable of expansion or contraction according to circumstances - And is far more steady than volun tary Charity - lmportant and salutary effects of alega] provision for the Poor on the principle of Population - Prevents the growth of redundant and indi gent numbers - Lesds to no undue impulse to the principle of increase - Ra ther diminishes the diseased action of that principle-prior to English Poor Laws evils of mendicity were severely felt there - The present state of Eng land the best proof of their good e?'ects-principles of Assessment - 'and ap plication of the funds - Strong Injunctions to this social duty in the Gospel variance between them and the real interest of the Poor. - 166-24l.
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