...draw a proper line of distinction between those who are able to provide for themselves by their labor and those who, after having enriched their country...of children, have a claim upon its assistance for support.1 By making the punishments for illegitimate births less severe or by removing such punishments...

...was intended. What measure then could be found to supply the defect ? Let us, said he, make relief in cases where there are a number of children, a matter...have a claim upon its assistance for their support. All this, however, he would confess, was not enough, if they did not engraft upon it resolutions to...

...matter of right and an honour, instead of a ground for opprobrium and contempt. This will make a largo family a blessing, and not a curse; and this will...have a claim upon its assistance for their support. All this, however, he would confess, was not enough, if they did not engraft upon it resolutions to...

...this will draw a proper line of distinction between those who are able to provide for themselves by labour, and those who after having enriched their country with a number of children have a claim on its assistance for their support." Of course he desired "to discourage relief where it was not wanted."...

...proper line of distinction between ^lose who are able to provide for themselves by their labour, tid those who, after having enriched their country with...children, have a claim upon its assistance for their ipport. All this, however, he would confess, was not enough, they did not engraft upon it resolutions...

...raised for the relief of the poor of the whole kingdom. A parish is much more interested in an riched their country with a number of children, have a claim upon its assistance for [their] support." — Hansard's Parliamentary History, vol. 32, p. 710. [In closing the same debate Mr. Whitbread said,...

...Parson Malthus,' Political Register, vol. 34, N0. 33. * Chartism, pp. 201, 202 (edition of 1899). have enriched their country with a number of children have a claim upon its assistance for support.' l Yet in 1800 he was compelled by the influence of ' those whose opinions he was bound to...

...premise, William Pitt advised the House of Commons in 1796 to reward large, poor families since they "after having enriched their country with a number of children, have a claim upon its assistance for support" (Ricardo 1951:109). Just two years later, with the publication of Malthus's Essay on the Principle...

...distinction between those who are to provide for themselves by their labour, and those who, after enriching their country with a number of children, have a claim upon its assistance for their support."" )RM OF THE POOR LAWS A commission to investigate the effectiveness of the Poor Laws was established...

...Exchequer introduced a Bill in Parliament for allowances for children. He urged Parliament 'to make relief, in cases where there are a number of children, a matter...children have a claim upon its assistance for their support.'1 Pressure of other business prevented further proceedings on Pitt's Bill. The next business...