 | Patrick Colquhoun - Great Britain - 1806 - 334 pages
...occupations of life ; or in other words, it is the state of every one who must labour for subsistence. Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable...civilization. It is the lot of man — it is the source of wealth, since without poverty there would ;be no labour, and without labour there could be no riches,... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - Great Britain - 1806 - 330 pages
...occupations of life ; or in other words, it is the state of every one who must labour for subsistence. Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which naV" tions and communities could not exist in a state of civilization. It is the lot of man — it... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...every one who must labour for subsistence. Poverty is, therefore, a most necessary and indispensible ingredient in society, without which nations and communities...civilization. It is the lot of man — it is the source of wealth, since without poverty there would be no labour, and without labour there could be no riches,... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1820 - 496 pages
...Colquhoun, in his " Treatise on Indigence," page 7, ob- ' 'serves, that " poverty is a most necessary ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a ... — _ state of dvilKaiion." Perhaps it would be easy to show that there is a much nearer connexion... | |
 | Economics - 1921 - 614 pages
...the alternative doctrine of the brandished stick. An economist, reminds his readers that " Poverty is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and comm unities could not exist in a state of civilization " 3 ; and politicians argue that a rise in... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb - Capitalism - 1923 - 218 pages
...subsistence but what is derived from the constant exercise of industry in the various occupations of life. Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable...nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation. It is the lot of man. It is the source of wealth, since without poverty there could be... | |
 | Guy Alfred Aldred - Labor leaders - 1923 - 204 pages
...£6,884 193. 1d. per annum. In a Treatise on Indigence he declared that " poverty is a most necessary ingredient in society without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilization." This man shows that the average income per person (including dependents which, in the noble class,... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb - Capitalism - 1923 - 186 pages
...subsistence but what is derived from the constant exercise of industry in the various occupations of life. Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society* without iuh'rj' "at'"*" "*J — * communities could not fxist in A <fatf nf ritii&atinii. Tt is the lot of... | |
 | Sidney Webb - Local government - 1927 - 480 pages
...subsistence but what is derived from the cqn&tant exercise of industry in the various occupations of life/ Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without whicji nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation. } It is the lot of man.... | |
 | Beatrice Webb - Local government - 1928 - 50 pages
...since riches are the offspring of labour, while labour can exist only from a state of poverty. . . . Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable...communities could not exist in a state of civilization.' ' Hunger will tame the fiercest animals ', wrote the Rev. Joseph Townsend, one of the leading thinkers... | |
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Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation. 
