Excerpt from A Short Inquiry Into the Policy, Humanity and Past Effects of the Poor Laws, and Into the Principles Upon Which Any Measures for Their Improvement Should Be Conducted: In Which Are Included a Few Considerations, on the Questions of Political Economy, Most Intimately Connected With the Subject, Particularly on the Supply of God in EnglandAn endeavour has been made to treat it in a manner, that will convey general in formation, and enable every man of sound sense, and liberal education, to form a fair estimate of the expediency, or inexpediency of a system, which has been hitherto upheld in some measure by the respect due to its origin and antiquity, which has been found to produce some inconvenience, and which it is how high time should either be entirely got rid of, ' or finally settled upon known and fixed principles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.