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64 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY.
forces in that horrible vendetta which raged from the year 1455 to
1485, and as they extinguished themselves for a time, they extin-
guished or suspended with their own existence, no loss, all but the
forms of the English constitution. The place-hunters of the
Restoration and the second Revolution were exceedingly'redun-
dant. For there is no service which should be rewarded except
that which deserves to be rewarded, just as there is no true vested
interest but that the public benefit and profit of which can be
conclusively demonstrated.
The people who prey on society are always redundant. Most
people admit this of the criminal classes. They who, by mis-
fortune and incapacity, are a burden on the public charity, are
redundant, superfluous, but should be gently and kindly dealt
with. I wish I could find out about the unemployed. I have
never arrived at more than the fringe of information, and that
had been in unexpected quarters. It is a little suspicious that the
phenomenon reappears very speedily after the sporting season is
over. It would be, I am sure, well if inquiries were made about
the status and origin of these unfortunates. They seem to present
the phenomena of over-population, and if I can believe Mr. Peek,
who has had exceptional opportunities for learning the facts, " the
workless, the thriftless, and the worthless," are a sorry lot, for
whom there is little hope, a mere army of utterly unproductive
consumers.
I cannot, indeed, pretend to particularize classes here. I can
only refer to them historically, as Juvenal advises, those who are
buried by the Latin and Flaminian Ways. But so far I agree with
Mr. George. I could witness, I will say no more, with extreme
complacency, the emigration of many superior persons. For the
risk of over-population does not reside in skill and industry, but
in the proportion which those bear to skill and industry who do
nothing. They have been described with appalling frankness, as
they who toil not, neither do they spin. In the abstract I suppose
one may class these as redundant. But I am fortunately exempt
in this place, from designating them in the concrete. I do not
pretend to indicate where we should search for the residuum, but
I am sure that we are none the stronger for keeping that, and
losing the most useful of our people.
forces in that horrible vendetta which raged from the year 1455 to
1485, and as they extinguished themselves for a time, they extin-
guished or suspended with their own existence, no loss, all but the
forms of the English constitution. The place-hunters of the
Restoration and the second Revolution were exceedingly'redun-
dant. For there is no service which should be rewarded except
that which deserves to be rewarded, just as there is no true vested
interest but that the public benefit and profit of which can be
conclusively demonstrated.
The people who prey on society are always redundant. Most
people admit this of the criminal classes. They who, by mis-
fortune and incapacity, are a burden on the public charity, are
redundant, superfluous, but should be gently and kindly dealt
with. I wish I could find out about the unemployed. I have
never arrived at more than the fringe of information, and that
had been in unexpected quarters. It is a little suspicious that the
phenomenon reappears very speedily after the sporting season is
over. It would be, I am sure, well if inquiries were made about
the status and origin of these unfortunates. They seem to present
the phenomena of over-population, and if I can believe Mr. Peek,
who has had exceptional opportunities for learning the facts, " the
workless, the thriftless, and the worthless," are a sorry lot, for
whom there is little hope, a mere army of utterly unproductive
consumers.
I cannot, indeed, pretend to particularize classes here. I can
only refer to them historically, as Juvenal advises, those who are
buried by the Latin and Flaminian Ways. But so far I agree with
Mr. George. I could witness, I will say no more, with extreme
complacency, the emigration of many superior persons. For the
risk of over-population does not reside in skill and industry, but
in the proportion which those bear to skill and industry who do
nothing. They have been described with appalling frankness, as
they who toil not, neither do they spin. In the abstract I suppose
one may class these as redundant. But I am fortunately exempt
in this place, from designating them in the concrete. I do not
pretend to indicate where we should search for the residuum, but
I am sure that we are none the stronger for keeping that, and
losing the most useful of our people.