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An Enquiry Into the Principles of Population, Exhibiting a System of Regulations for the Poor - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1832. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 223 CHAPTER X. IMPROVEMENT OF IRELAND, AND CONSEQUENT CHECK TO THE EMIGRATION OF LABOURERS TO ENGLAND. In any inquiry respecting the labouring classes in Great Britain, it would be improper to omit the consideration of the means to check the emigration of Irish labourers. Few will dispute that this circumstance has inflicted much evil on this country; and it is indispensably necessary for future prosperity to have it removed. Poor laws in Ireland will not alone accomplish the point, other measures affecting the entire people being first required. Section I. Causes of the Poverty of Ireland. When man is viewed with reference to his social condition, two prominent desires appear conspicuous; the desire of eventual gain, and the desire of immediate enjoyment. When the first is in excess, it constitutes the character of a miser, or a being who neglects present gratification in order to heap up provision for future wants, which possibly he may never live to gratify. When the latter is in excess, it constitutes the character of the spendthrift, who thinks not of the future, but, from strong passions and feeble powers of reflection, proceeds in his life of pleasure, though future misery must await him, and inflict privation the more severe from its contrast to the preceding career of buoyant enjoyment. In drawing a comparison between these two desires, it is evident that the former ought considerably to predominate in every well regulated mind. Man is morally bound permanently to better his own condition, and still more particularly that of his family or the beings he brings into the world. There must, therefore, be accumulation, or, in other words, the desire of eventual gain should predominate over the antagonist feeling, in order that he may possess the means ...
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