Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Volume 25Statistical Society of London, 1862 |
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Page 41 - ... the condition of the independent class is depressed; their industry is impaired, their employment becomes unsteady, and its remuneration in wages is diminished. Such persons, therefore, are under the strongest inducements to quit the less eligible class of labourers, and enter the more eligible class of paupers.
Page 314 - The expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations. There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory and excitement, about war, which, notwithstanding the miseries it entails, invests it with charms in the eyes of the community, and tends to blind men to those evils to a fearful and dangerous degree. The necessity of meeting from year to year the expenditure which it entails is a salutary...
Page 301 - Day of October in every Year, the first of such Payments to be made on the second of such Days which shall happen next after the Issue of any such Advance in respect of which the Rentcharge shall be charged.
Page 40 - The first and most essential of all conditions, a principle " which we find universally admitted, even by those whose practice " is at variance with it, is, that his situation on the whole shall not " be made really or apparently so eligible as the situation of the " independent labourer of the lowest class.
Page 543 - ... among ascertained facts that a cold summer, with rain enough to wash and sweeten the earth and air, is favourable to health, and especially to the health of children. The annual rate of mortality in the quarter was i • 797 per cent, of the population against an average derived from ten summers (1852-61) of 2*020 per cent. In these ten summers there is but a single example of so low a death rate— viz., that furnished by 1860, which was 1-718. The mortality of the North-western counties (Lancashire...
Page 74 - Any person may, upon any Land Office day, tender to the Land Agent for the district a written application for the conditional purchase of any such lands, not less than 40 acres nor more than 320 acres, at the price of 20s. per acre, may pay to such Land Agent a deposit of 25 per centum of the purchase money thereof. And, if no other application and deposit for the same land be tendered at the same time, such person shall be declared the conditional purchaser thereof at the price aforesaid.
Page 504 - In fact, it may be discovered that the true veins of wealth are purple — and not in Rock, but in Flesh — perhaps even that the final outcome and consummation of all wealth is in the producing as many as possible full-breathed, bright-eyed, and happy-hearted human creatures.
Page 544 - A few of the registrars witnessing a reduction of the mortality with the distress that prevailed in their districts at the same time have been tempted to speculate on the facts, and as those officers in the course of their duties are in frequent communication with the labouring classes their opinions may be quoted. The registrar of Wigan states that more freedom to breathe the fresh air, inability to indulge in spirituous liquors, and better nursing of children, are believed to have improved the...
Page 516 - assert that, notwithstanding the progress of machinery in agriculture, there is probably as much sound practical, labor-saving invention and machinery unused as there is used ; and that it is unused solely in consequence of the ignorance and incompetency of the work people.