“every one but an ideot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious:: I do not mean that the poor in England are to be kept like the poor of France; but the state of the country considered, they must be (like all mankind) in poverty, or they will not work.”

— Arthur Young

Arthur Young (1771), The Farmer's Tour through the East of England, v. 4, p. 361 https://archive.org/stream/farmerstourthrou04youn#page/360/mode/2up.

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