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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III.?Atti della Giunta per la Inchiesta Agraria e sulle Condizioni della Clatse Agricola. Rome: 1881-2. Ever since the dawn of history was there a time when so much and such sedulous care and thought were given to the condition and wants of the poor, by the ruling and more fortunate classes of society in all civilised communities, as is the case at present. It would be cynically unjust, and inconsistent with palpable facts, to maintain that this is due wholly, or even mainly, to fear of what may result from the desperation of the miserable and the teaching of malesuada fames. But, on the other hand, warnings of a very significant kind which address themselves as imperatively to the statesman as to the philanthropist are from day to day making themselves heard and seen in every country of Europe. In none has the need of amelioration been greater than in Italy; while the warnings of the kind alluded to have been less seriously menacing there than elsewhere. It is the more creditable, therefore, to that nation that she has earnestly taken in hand the task of alleviating the condition of her least fortunate classes, not constrained by fear of any imminent social catastrophe, but moved by considerations of a worthier order. It is true that doctrinaire republicans and hot-headed socialists have of late found means to make their voices more loudly heard in Northern Italy, and have in some degree disquieted ministers by their violence. But these demonstrations of the revolutionary party in Italy, which we regard as virtually absorbed by the independence of the nation and the popularity of the reigning family, have little or no connexion with the real sores and plague-spota of the country, and certainly do not draw whatever force they may possess from any upheaval of the really low...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217947527 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217947522 |
| Weight | 1.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $33.21 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 476 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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