Excerpt from Considerations on the Poor Laws T HE author of the following pages is well aware of the difficulty of the subject of the Poor Laws, when it is to be taken up with a view to any practical amendment of them. If therefore he should seem, in the course of stating what he has wished to say upon them, to have expressed himself any where with less hesitation and mistrust of judgment, than a question of such acknowledged intricacy re quires, he has done so only to save some tedi ousness in the form of putting his opinions, and begs, by declaring his sense of that diffi culty once for all, 'to be acquitted, Of the indis cretion of Speaking confidently to others, where he himself would be glad to see his way with more certainty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.