Dispauperization (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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If poverty be 'the teacher of arts and the dis penser of genius,' 1 the mother of industry and of useful inventions, it is no less the prompter of all specious but impracticable theories of right or benevolence with regard to the possession and distribution of wealth. To what inspiration but poverty are to be ascribed the dreams of fraternity, equalisation of possessions, social ism, and communism? The very terms are but trans lations of the vague and lawless wishes of discontented poverty into the language of pseudo-philanthropy and false political philosophy.

In every political community poverty is an ob stimate fact, which can neither be got rid of nor ignored. Avoid the hideous monster here, and it will reappear there; attempt to suppress and crush it, as was at tempted in years previous to the great French Revolu tion, and it rises, Antaeus-like, more formidable from the earth. It is the constant shadow, an ever-present punishment, of human folly, passion, and vice. All attempts to abolish or prevent it by law have proved not merely failures, but aggravations of the evil, and productive of still greater evils. The treatment of it, like other social problems, is a problem which has recurred at various ages of the world, and is capable only of an approximate solution.

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