OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES 



ON WHICH 



GENERAL ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE RELIEF OF THE 

 POOR MAY BE FORMED IN ALL COUNTRIES. 



CHAPTER I. 



General View of the Subject. Deplorable State of 

 those who are reduced to Poverty. No Body of 

 Laws can be so framed as to provide effectually for 

 their Wants. Only adequate Relief that can be 

 afforded them must be derived from the voluntary 

 Assistance of the Humane and Benevolent. How 

 that Assistance is to be secured. Objections to the 

 Expense of taking Care of the Poor answered. 

 Of the Means of introducing a Scheme for the Relief 

 of the Poor. 



THOUGH the fundamental principles on which the 

 establishment for the poor at Munich is founded 

 are such as I can venture to recommend ; and not- 

 withstanding the fullest information relative to every 

 part of that establishment may, I believe, be collected 

 from the account of it which is given in the foregoing 

 Essay ; yet as this information is so dispersed in differ- 

 ent parts of the work, and so blended with a variety of 

 other particulars, that the reader would find some diffi- 

 culty in bringing the whole into one view, and arrang- 



