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In furnishing raw materials to the poor to work, it 

 will be necessary to use many precautions to prevent 

 frauds and abuses, not only on the part of the poor, who 

 are often but too much disposed to cheat and deceive 

 whenever they find opportunities, but also on the part 

 of those employed in the details of this business ; but, 

 the fullest information having already been given in my 

 first Essay of all the various precautions it had been 

 found necessary to take for the purposes in question in 

 the House of Industry at Munich, it is not necessary 

 for me to enlarge upon the subject in this place, or to 

 repeat what has already been said upon it elsewhere. 



With regard to the manner in which good and whole- 

 some food for feeding the poor may be prepared in a 

 public kitchen, at a cheap rate, I must refer my reader 

 to my Essay on Food, where he will find all the infor- 

 mation on that subject which he can require. In my 

 Essay on Clothing, he will see how good and comfort- 

 able clothing may be furnished to the poor at a very 

 moderate expense, and in that On the Management of 

 Heat he will find particular directions for the poor for 

 saving fuel. 



I cannot finish this Essay without taking notice of a 

 difficulty which will frequently occur in giving employ- 

 ment to the poor, that of disposing to advantage of the 

 produce of their labour. This is in all cases a very im- 

 portant object, and too much attention cannot be paid 

 to it. A spirit of industry cannot be kept up but by 

 making it advantageous to individuals to be indus- 

 trious ; but, where the wages which the labourer has a 

 right to expect are refused, it will not be possible to pre- 

 vent his being discouraged and disgusted. He ma}'- 

 perhaps be forced for a certain time to work for small 



