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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: PARLIAMENTARY MEANS FOR THE ABOLITION OF PAUPERISM BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF THE FIFTEENTH NUMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN AND CIVIC ECONOMY OF LARGE TOWNS. THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D. PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS. GLASGOW: PRINTED FOR CHALMERS AND COLLINS; ' William Whyte and Co. And William Oliphant, Edinburgh; R. M. Tims, Dublin; And G. and W. B. Whittakeh, London. 1824. Printed by W. Collins and Co, Glasgow. PARLIAMENTARY MEANS FOR THE ABOLITION OF PAUPERISM ENGLAND. A Gentleman who is bestowing much of his attention on the poor laws, when informed of the speed and facility wherewith all compulsory pauperism had been extinguished in a particular parish, replied, that although it might be easy to effect the deliverance of one parish, it was not so easy to legislate for the deliverance of all England. But if an easy and applicable method can be devised for pne parish, what is it that the legislature has properly to do for the accomplishment of the general object? Simply to remove the legal obstructions that may now stand in the way of the method in question. Simply to authorise each parish that so wills to avail itself of this method. And should many parishes, or should all of them at length go forth upon the enterprise, and succeed in it; then the extinction of this sore evil over the country at large, instead of being referred to the impetus of the single blow, struck against it by the arm ofParliament?should be referred to a cause far more commensurate with the vastness of the achievement, even to the power of those multiplied energies set to work, throughout the land, each of which, however, had only its own separate and limited object to overtake, and each of which acted independently of all the rest. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217298315 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217298311 |
| Weight | 0.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 118 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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