Tactics for the Times: As Regards the Condition and Treatment of the Dangerous Classes ...Pall Mall, 1849 - 245 páginas |
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Tactics for the Times: As Regards the Conditions and Treatment of the ... Jelinger Cookson Symons Vista de fragmentos - 1984 |
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Página 56 - If it be true that out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies...
Página iii - ... if that be possible; to purify its morals; to direct its energies; to substitute a knowledge of business for its inexperience, and an...
Página 40 - In these wretched dwellings all ages and both sexes, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, grown up brothers and sisters, stranger adult males and females, and swarms of children, the sick, the dying, and the dead, are herded together with a proximity and mutual pressure which brutes would resist; where it is physically impossible to preserve the ordinary decencies of life; where all sense of propriety and self-respect must be lost, to be replaced only by a recklessness of demeanour which necessarily...
Página 40 - ... which necessarily results from vitiated minds; and yet with many of the young, brought up in such hot-beds of mental pestilence, the hopeless, but benevolent, attempt is making to implant, by means of general education, the seeds of religion, virtue, truth, order, industry, and cleanliness; but which seeds, to fructify advantageously, need, it is to be feared, a soil far less rank than can be found in these wretched abodes. Tender minds, once vitiated, present almost insuperable difficulties...
Página 231 - As Pastor of the Island, and for two years a magistrate, I can prove that at no period was there so little crime,—or anything like the tone of improved feeling which characterized the period of his residence there, and I am willing to stake all my credit upon the assertion that if he has a fair field and fair play, his cause will be triumphantly established.
Página 214 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Página 2 - Of the working men, at least in the more advanced countries of Europe, it may be pronounced certain, that the patriarchal or paternal system of government is one to which they will not again be subject. That question was decided, when they were taught to read, and allowed access to newspapers and political tracts...
Página 41 - Committee have reason to fear, from letters which have appeared in the public journals, is but the type of the miserable condition of masses of the community, whether located in the small, ill-ventilated rooms of manufacturing towns, or in many of the cottages of the agricultural peasantry.
Página 4 - A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest — who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern — who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine — have their faculties only half developed ; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.
Página 36 - Even the physical condition of the people seems almost as if contrived for the double purpose of their degradation and the employers' profit. Some of the works are surrounded by houses built by the companies 'without the slightest attention to comfort, health or decency, or any other consideration than that of realizing the largest amount of rent from the smallest amount of outlay. I went into several of this class of houses in the north part of my district, and examined them from top to bottom.