396 Coritinualion of the same. Subject. Bk. iv, 



•does not make the slightest approach towards ac- 

 complishing this object, but seems to be peculiarly 

 calculated to effect an object exactly the reverse 

 of it, that is, to increase and multiply the number 

 of paupers. 



If the establishments which he recommends 

 could really be conducted according to his appa- 

 rent intentions, the order of nature and the lessons 

 of providence would indeed be in the most marked 

 manner reversed ; and the idle and profligate 

 would be placed in a situation which might justly 

 be the envy of the industrious and virtuous. The 

 labourer or manufacturer who is now ill lodged 

 and ill clothed, and obliged to work twelve hours 

 a day to maintain his family, could have no motive 

 to continue his exertions, if the reward for slack- 

 ening them, and seeking parish assistance, was good 

 lodging, good clothing, the maintenance and edu- 

 cation of all his children, and the exchange of 

 twelve hours hard work in an unwholesome manu- 

 factory for four or five hours of easy agricultural 

 labour on a pleasant farm. Under these tempta- 

 tions, the numbers yearly falling into the new 

 establishments from the labouring and manufac- 

 turing classes, together with the rapid increase 

 by procreation of the societies themselves, would 

 very soon render the first purchases of land utterly 

 incompetent to their support. More land must 

 then be purchased and fresh settlements made ; 

 and if the higher classes of society were bound to 

 proceed in the system according to its apparent 

 spirit and intention, there cannot be a doubt that 



