Aspects of the Social ProblemBernard Bosanquet Macmillan, 1895 - 334 стор. |
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able-bodied poor allowed applied better Board Boards of Guardians Brixworth causes character Charity Organisation Society Charles Booth child deal dependence destitute difficulty districts duty earn economic employers employment evidence evil existence fact Friendly Societies give given Guardians hospitals House human ideas important impotent poor individual indoor relief industrial infirmary instance interest justices labour legislation less lives London lunatics means ment mind moral natural selection necessary old-age pauperism outdoor relief overseers parents parish pension perhaps persons Poor Law administration Poor Law Commission Poor Law Commissioners Poor Law relief poor relief practical principle problem question realise reason recognise reference reform regard Report Residuum result scheme seems sick social things tion town trade true unions vagabonds vagrants wages whole women Workhouse
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Сторінка 228 - ... 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...
Сторінка 181 - 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.
Сторінка 319 - 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...
Сторінка 181 - ... 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.
Сторінка 181 - 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.
Сторінка 182 - 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.
Сторінка 291 - 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.
Сторінка 182 - 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.
Сторінка 179 - to lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees...
Сторінка 239 - ... all Relief given to or on account of the Wife, or to or on account of any Child or Children under the Age of Sixteen, not being blind or deaf and dumb, shall be considered as given to the Husband of such Wife, or to the Father of such Child or Children, as the Case may be...