A New View of Society and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Gregory Claeys & Robert Owen
Author:Gregory Claeys & Robert Owen [Claeys, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780141932194
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2007-11-29T03:00:00+00:00
MR OWEN
SIR – I have taken the liberty of addressing you in consequence of reading your very able and judicious Plan for the amelioration and Employment of the Poor, which has appeared in the Public Papers, and which does appear to be the best calculated for the general happiness and prosperity of the nation which can be possibly adopted. No doubt, like all great undertakings, many improvements may suggest themselves from time to time in the course of its progress, but none but what may be easily introduced without the slightest impediment to the original design. It wants nothing but the support and protection of Government to enable it to be the most efficient national establishment in the kingdom; and it would be the means of drawing forth the prayers and gratitude of the poor, and would also meet the general approbation of every good individual in the country. It would soon change the feelings of many thousands of the present unhappy and discontented class of the community, into gratitude and respect towards their superiors, and obedience to the laws of the country. It is distress that first produces indifference, and that leads imperceptibly, from time to time, to depravity and desperation; and then general misery gets established throughout the country.
Open once a prospect to future comfort, there will not be found any want of patience to wait for the enjoyment of it. My motive for addressing this is, merely to suggest a simple plan for raising the means for the accomplishment. I will suppose, by way of foundation, £100,000 will be sufficient, either for one establishment, or to be divided into smaller ones, as may be deemed expedient: the common interest upon this will be £5,000. There will be but little difficulty, I should imagine, to find one hundred Gentlemen who would most willingly give every encouragement to promote any undertaking that will add comfort to the Poor. We have proof, and proof sufficient, in every benevolent establishment throughout the kingdom, to evince there never has been any want of liberal feeling, when it has been required.
If one hundred persons of sufficient property will undertake the promotion of the plan, it can easily be accomplished in this way: If Government will advance, in the first instance, the £100,000, and each of the one hundred persons will consider himself as a kind of Trustee to the Establishment, subject to the payment of an annual sum of £50 to Government – this will discharge the interest. The Trustees, in proportion as they can, to employ on the Establishment the present unemployed Poor, which will give considerable relief to the Poor Rates. The Trustees then shall have a power to receive a reduced rate from the parishes accordingly as the unemployed Poor get off the parish books. This will lessen the claim upon the private property of the Trustees upon the interest which they have to pay to Government. If I understand correctly, the Establishment, ultimately, is to produce profit. If so,
Download
A New View of Society and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Gregory Claeys & Robert Owen.mobi
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy(4529)
Bluets by Maggie Nelson(4268)
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose(4097)
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini(3982)
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara(3789)
Walking by Henry David Thoreau(3685)
What If This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky(3199)
Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories by Margaret Lucke(3197)
The Daily Stoic by Holiday Ryan & Hanselman Stephen(3112)
The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk by Sudha Murty(3106)
Why I Write by George Orwell(2777)
The Social Psychology of Inequality by Unknown(2770)
Letters From a Stoic by Seneca(2673)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson Bill(2511)
Insomniac City by Bill Hayes(2399)
Feel Free by Zadie Smith(2379)
A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde(2350)
Upstream by Mary Oliver(2273)
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky(2176)
