Aspects of the Social ProblemBernard Bosanquet Macmillan, 1895 - 334 sider |
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able-bodied able-bodied poor applied better Board Brixworth cause character Charity Organisation Society Charles Booth child citizen citizenship Commissioners course deal dependence destitute difficulty district duty earn economic employers employment evil existence fact Friendly Societies give given Guardians hospitals House human ideas important impotent poor individual indoor relief industrial infirmary instance institutions interests justices labour legislation less lives London lunatics means ment mind moral natural selection necessary old-age pauperism outdoor relief parents parish pension perhaps persons Poor Law Commissioners Poor Law relief Poor Law schools poor relief practical principle problem question realise recognise reference reform Report Residuum result scheme seems sense sick social things tion town trade true unions UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vagabonds vagrants wages whole women Workhouse
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Side 214 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them , and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Side 167 - While we are thus unconstrained in our private intercourse, a spirit of reverence pervades our public acts ; we are prevented from doing wrong by respect for authority and for the laws, having an especial regard to those which are ordained for the protection of the injured, as well as to those unwritten laws which bring upon the transgressor of them the reprobation of the general sentiment.
Side 167 - ... and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit. Neither is poverty a bar, but a man may benefit his country whatever be the obscurity of his condition.
Side 167 - For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it.
Side 168 - An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household ; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character ; and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of a policy.
Side 305 - There is often a great deal of difference between the will of all and the general will; the latter considers only the common interest, while the former takes private interest into account, and is no more than a sum of particular wills...
Side 277 - I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.
Side 168 - Such is the city for whose sake these men nobly fought and died: they could not bear the thought that she might be taken from them ; and every one of us who survive should gladly toil on her behalf.
Side 165 - to lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees...
Side 182 - I mean great thieves, petty thieves, and rogues, did hang up threescore and twelve thousand of them in his time. He seemed for a while greatly to have terrified the rest; but since his death the number of them is so increased, yea, although we have had no wars, which are a great...