OF RICHARD JEFFERIES 



things, to say that they are possible, is 

 criminal with many. Madness could 

 hardly go farther.— * The Story of my 

 Heart.' 



AT this hour, out of thirty- 

 four millions who inhabit 

 ^ this country, two-thirds— say 

 twenty-two millions — live within thirty 

 years of that abominable institution the 

 poor-house. That any human being 

 should dare to apply to another the 

 epithet ' pauper ' is, to me, the greatest, 

 the vilest, the most unpardonable crime 

 that could be committed. Each human 

 being, by mere birth, has a birthright 

 in this earth and all its productions; 

 and if they do not receive it, then it is 

 they who are injured, and it is not 

 the 'pauper'— O inexpressibly wicked 

 word ! it is the well-to-do who are the 

 criminal classes. 

 It matters not in the least if the poor 



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