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Malthusianism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Is the Poor Law and How Far It Stretches

The poor law dates back to the Elizabethan era and it's a system of entitlement to Relief in terms of money and food that comes from the parish in which you were born. It was really a straining to breaking point by the late 18th century and early 19th century because of the sheer numbers of people in need of assistance So that up to about a seventh of the population in the early 19th Century were on some kind of relief or other The romantics essentially characterized mouthless as Promolgating a worldview that is reductive.

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