An Essay On the Principle of Population Or a View of Its Past And Present Effe
An Essay On the Principle of Population Or a View of Its Past And Present Effe
T R Thomas Robert Malthus
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But this is probably a short- sighted policy. It is sacrificing the prin- ciple for which saving-banks are esta- blished, to obtain an advantage which, on this verv account, will be comparatively of little value. We wish to teach the la- bouring classes to rely more upon their own exertions and resources, as the only way of really improving their condition ; yet we reward their saving by making them still dependent upon that very species of Ch. Xii. Continuation of the same Subject. 279 of assi...stance which it is our object that thev should avoid. The progress of saving- banks under such a regulation will be but an equivocal and uncertain symptom of good ; whereas without such a regulation every step would tell, every fresh deposition would prove, the growth of a desire to become independent of parish assistance ; and both the great extension of the friendly societies, and the success of the saving-banks in pro- portion to the time they have been esta- blished, clearly shew that much progress might be expected in these institutions under favourable circumstances, without resorting to a measure which is evidently calculated to sacrifice the end to the means.
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