LOTZE ON THE UNION OF SOUL AND BODY. 175 



Send out your detectives with the average tramps, 

 let policemen in the disguise of comrades sleep where 

 the tramps sleep, and this, I venture to say, will be 

 the conversation in seven cases out of ten : " Do you 

 know, Tom, that I have had my meals five years ? " 

 " Yes ! Have you worked any, James ? " " No." 

 - " Do you intend to, James ? " " Not I." " How 

 do you get your living ? " "I ask for it here and 

 there. I pick it up now and then without asking. 

 Out in the country, in the dark, you know, I have 

 been able to find chickens and a little honey ! Some- 

 times it has been long between meals ; but I have 

 had my meals every day, with some irregularities, for 

 five years, and I intend to have them for five years to 

 come, and am never going to do any more work ; not 

 I." Perhaps he is half drunk. Able-bodied shiftless- 

 ness deserves the almshouse, and must sink, under 

 the eternal laws of justice, until legal power compels 

 it to earn its daily bread. " If any man will not work, 

 neither shall he eat." [Applause.] 



The better and the worse class of the poor are 

 always with us, and we need a machine for sifting 

 the worthy from the unworthy. Will you be taught 

 by experience ? You think I am appealing now to 

 self-interest merely ; but, if I understand my own 

 object, I have no selfish motives in what I say. I 

 own no railroad stock. I own no government bonds. 

 I represent no church or society. I am not speaking 

 for pay here. You will find it very hard to attack 

 me on these points. [Applause.] There are points 

 on which I can be attacked, but not on these. 



