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<head>Indirect Legislation</head> | |||
<note>Satisfying</note> | |||
<note><add>Division of the</add> The indigent<lb/> are <add>into</add> either unsuspicious<lb/>& suspicious<lb/></note> | |||
<head>III Expedients for satisfying indigence</head> | |||
<p>Those for whom it may be expedient to<lb/>provide subsistence on the score of poverty may be<lb/>distinguished in the first instance into two<lb/>great classes; the honest or unsuspicious, and<lb/>the dishonest or suspicious. Under the first<lb/>kind may be ranked the industrious poor,<lb/>the sick poor, and the <del>incurable:</del> <add>helpless inferior poor:</add> under the<lb/>latter, sturdy beggars, persons suspected <add>of crimes of indigence</add> but not<lb/>liable, persons suspected <add>of crimes of indigence</add> after acquittal: sturdy<lb/>beggars may be <sic>considerd</sic> as forming a <add>sort of</add> middle<lb/>class, referable for some purpose to the first.<lb/>for other purposes to the second.<lb/></p> | |||
<note>Why the helpless<lb/>taken into account<lb/>here<lb/></note> | |||
It may seem that the provision to be<lb/>made for such of the poor who are in a state<lb/>of helplessness, however requisite it may be in another<lb/>point of view does not come properly <del>under</del><lb/>into consideration under the present head: since<lb/>being unable to help themselves they are equally<lb/>unable to hurt others. But those who are<lb/>indigent through helplessness communicate <add>their indigence</add> by<lb/>the power of sympathy to <del>such as</del> <add>other who</add> are able.<lb/>A man who could <del>maintain</del> provide with care<lb/> <note>for</note><pb/> | |||
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43
Indirect Legislation
Satisfying
Division of the The indigent
are into either unsuspicious
& 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 inferior poor: under the
latter, sturdy beggars, persons suspected of crimes of indigence but not
liable, persons suspected of crimes of indigence after acquittal: sturdy
beggars may be considerd as forming a sort of middle
class, referable for some purpose to the first.
for other purposes to the second.
Why the helpless
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 under
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 other who are able.
A man who could maintain provide with care
for
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