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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.