“The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.”

—  Herbert Spencer, book Social Statics

Pt. III, Ch. 25 : Poor-Laws
Social Statics (1851)

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