Excerpt from The Poor Law
Legal provision for the relief of the destitute is not, like other national institutions, - for instance, Parliament, courts of justice, or a standing army, - a plain and necessary part of civilised social organisation, requiring no explanation and needing no defence. On the contrary, such provision would seem at first sight artificial and even unnatural, for it establishes a state of things in which persons are not obliged, unless they choose, to provide themselves with the means of subsistence; while those who work for their own living are compelled, whether they like it or not, to maintain those who will not or cannot support themselves. Hence it is always found necessary, in treating of this subject, to begin by showing why there ought to be and in point of fact must be a Poor Law before we can discuss profitably what Poor Laws ought to be, or describe what they have been.
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