This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 Excerpt: ...it is necessary to consider the composition and the manners of that portion of the people, whose minds have been thus perverted and inflamed. Of the numerous class, which may be denominated the populace of London and its ejivirons, the greatest part, undoubtedly, subsists by honest means; but even this part conta'rns, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 Excerpt: ...it is necessary to consider the composition and the manners of that portion of the people, whose minds have been thus perverted and inflamed. Of the numerous class, which may be denominated the populace of London and its ejivirons, the greatest part, undoubtedly, subsists by honest means; but even this part conta'rns, it is to be feared, many thousands and tens of thousands of individuals, who have no fense, whatever, of Religion, whose morals are becoming more and more profligate every day, and the most regular and respectable of whom are enabled, by the present high rate of wages for manual labour, to pass several days in each week in idleness, dissipation, and intemperance. But among The loss which the country sustains in being thus deprived of so large a portion of that industry, which constitutes its riches and its strength, is immense, and will, at length, prove an irreparable injury to its commerce; but the moral injury which it suffers, from the corruption of the most numerous class of society, exceeds all description. The evil originates in unlawful combinations of workmen, who are enabled to extort unreasonable wages from their employers, not merely by the influence which they derive from union, but by the resource of a common fund, by the aid of which they are maintained, when out of employ, and even when confined in prison for their irregular practices. The funds of benefit societies are perverted to the fame mischievous purpose. This principle of unlawful combination is extending itself even to the yonst of the metropolis, who are beginning to form themselves inte Prtnlict among that Class are to be found, mixed with the honest, but too idle, artificers, and always ready to goad them to excefles, a host of criminals, who live by plunder and dep...
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