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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Author: Various Release Date: April 1, 2010 [EBook #31859] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, MARCH 1847 *** Produced by Brendan OConnor, Jonathan Ingram, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. CCCLXXVII. MARCH, 1847. VOL. LXI. ON PAUPERISM, AND ITS TREATMENT. "If I oft Must turn elsewhere--to travel near the tribes And fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of maddening passions mutually inflamed; Must hear humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish; or must hang Brooding above the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities--may these sounds Have their authentic comment!" WORDSWORTH. In order to deal effectively with pauperism, it is necessary to know the causes which lead to the impoverishment of individuals and masses of individuals, and to be familiar with the condition, manners, customs, habits, prejudices, feelings, and superstitions of the poor. We do not propose to institute an elaborate inquiry into the _causes of pauperism_, or to make the topic a subject of separate investigation. Our chief object will be, to collect into classes those of the poor who are known, from personal observation, to become chargeable to parishes, which process will afford abundant scope for remark upon the causes which led to their impoverishment. We may require the company of the reader with us in the metropolis for a short space, and may satisfy him that he need not travel ten miles from his own door in search of valuable facts, and at the same time convince him _that pauperism is not that simple compact evil_ which many would wish him to believe. We might a
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