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people, and, as St Paul says, “ if a man work not neither shall 
he eat ; ” but as the upper classes learn to know their duties 
better and to fulfil them better, as the working men, becoming 
better educated, more moral, less slaves to their senses, attain 
by labour and thrift to the possession of property, as science 
goes on increasing the productivity of the agricultural and 
industrial arts, pauperism and the extreme forms of destitution 
will disappear—so far, at least, as they reach a whole class of 
families and form one of the sores of our social order.