It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.