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were a poor world if higher motives were banished ; but in look- 

 ing to the improvement of the pauper it is well that we may 

 count on a motive which is at least effectual. And, looking 

 to this motive alone, I say that the laws of demand and sup- 

 ply are so far from being antagonistic to improvement, that we 

 need only teach men what they should desire, and excite in 

 their minds a real disgust at their miserable condition, in order, 

 by the very laws of price, to create the Utopia of labour where 

 all men shall get a fair day's wages for a fair day's work, by 

 which vague phrase the workman means that the pay for his 

 labour shall buy him enjoyment as well as bread. 



