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 ca7i be so framed as to provide effectually for 

 their Wants. — Only adequate Relief that can be 

 afforded them mtcst be derived from the vohmtary 

 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- 



