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Ch. 13. Voluntary Charity assisted and directed

Indigence, the misfortune which it is the object of
Charity, to relieve may be distinguished into absolute
and relative: absolute, the want of a deficiency in respect of the necessary means
of preserving existence; relative, the want a deficiency of those means
of comfort as well as subsistence to the enjoyment of which a man
has been wedded by habit habituated. The difference between
absolute and relative indigence marks out what
seems to be the proper field for the exertions of
voluntary charity: whatever is done in this way, it
is only by voluntary charity it can be done: to guarantee
to a man the continuance of his existing
income at every degree in the scale of opulence or
even at any one degree above the lowest, would be to
destroy all property, by sacrifice to the prodigal the
property of the industrious, to the destruction of the industrious man
of industry in the first place, and afterwards then of the
prodigal himself. These things being considered
it may appear at first as if little or no assistance
would or could be given to the exertions of voluntary charity
by the proposed Company with the system of Industry
Houses: since for that so far as the relief of absolute
indigence, there is not even now, still less
would there be under the proposed system any
thing left for voluntary charity to do: and that
as far as regarded the relief of ab relative indigence

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	149	Main Headings	poor law
Folio number	069	Info in main headings field	heads
Image	002	Titles	dissemination of useful knowledge
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	49923
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