The Rights of the Poor, And Christian Almsgiving Vindicated, Or, the State ...
The Rights of the Poor, And Christian Almsgiving Vindicated, Or, the State ...
S R Samuel Richard Bosanquet
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It is even believed, that the feeling among that class of persons is so strong on the point, that they would not consider themselves relieved from the claims of charity by the establish- ment of places of refuge for the poor.'*^ The most striking feature which presents itself throughout the whole of this evidence, both from foreign countries, and from Scot- land and Ireland, is the exuberance of kind, and affectionate, and disinterested feeling among relations, and between the poor and rich, an...d among the poor themselves, which wells forth from, and fertilises the soil in 8 Evidence on Irish-Poor Inquiry, p. 413. h Ibid. p. 414. Digitized by Google CONCLUSIONS. 287 every country which is not sterilised and rendered unfruitful of charity by the exist- ence of poor-laws^ or that which gives occa- sion for them. The next striking point is, the possibi- lity of the existence of warm and liberal feelings, and the unrestrained fruits of them, without their becoming wasteful and exces- sive ; and consistently with the non-increase, and even with the diminution, of mendi- cancy.
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