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Indirect Legislation

Satisfying

Division of the The indigent
are into either unsuspicious
or & suspicious

III Expedients for satisfying indigence

Those for whom it may be expedient to
provide subsistence on the score of poverty may be
distinguished in the first instance into two
great classes; the honest or unsuspicious, and
the dishonest or suspicious. Under the first
kind may be ranked the industrious poor,
the sick poor and the incurable: helpless infirm poor: under the
latter, sturdy beggars, persons suspected of crimes of indigence but not
triable, persons suspected of crimes of indigence after acquittal: sturdy
beggars may be considerd as forming a sort of middle
class, referable for some purposes to the first,
for other purposes to the second.

Why the helpless
are taken into account
here

It may seem that the provision to be
made for such of the poor who are in a state
of helplessness, however requisite it may be in another
point of view does not come properly und
into consideration under the present head: since
being unable to help themselves they are equally
unable to hurt others. But those who are
indigent through helplessness communicate their indigence by
the power of sympathy to such as others who are able.
A man who could maintain provide with care
for

Identifier: | JB/087/079/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	079	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles	iii expedients for satisfying indigence
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f45 / f46 / f47 / f48
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	27604
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