 | Literature, Modern - 1901 - 744 pages
...most ordinary conditions of healthful existence are impossible of attainment ; in which the pleasure* within reach are reduced to brutality and drunkenness...degradation ; in which the prospect of even steady .-mil honest industry is a life of unsuccessful battling with hunger rounded by a pauper's grave. I... | |
 | Great Britain - 1906 - 1160 pages
...children are forced to crowd into dens wherein decency is abolished, and the most ordinary conditions ^>f healthful existence are impossible of attainment ;...battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave. . . . When the organization of society, instead of mitigating this tendency, tends to continue and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1908 - 1218 pages
...at compo interest in the shape of starvation, disease, stunted development, and moral degra tion ; in which the prospect of even steady and honest industry is a life of unsucces battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave. . . . When the organization society, instead... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 920 pages
...existence are impossible of attainment ; in which the pleasures within reach are reduced to bestiality and drunkenness ; in which the pains accumulate at...battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave. That a certain proportion of the members of every great aggregation of mankind should constantly tend... | |
 | Choice literature - 1888 - 632 pages
...existence are impossible of attainment; in which the pleasures within reach are reduced to bestiality and drunkenness ; in which the pains accumulate at...the prospect of even steady and honest industry is a li fe of unsuccessful battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave. That a certain proportion... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Social problems - 1891 - 162 pages
...existence are impossible of attainment ; in which the pleasures within reach are reduced to bestiality and drunkenness; in which the pains accumulate at...battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave. That a certain proportion of the members of every great aggregation of mankind should constantly tend... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Christianity - 1891 - 316 pages
...compatible with and, indeed, based upon a social organization which will secure a fair amount of c industry is a life of unsuccessful battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave. That a certain proportion of the members of every great aggregation of mankind should constantly tend... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - Evolution - 1893 - 446 pages
...existence are impossible of attainment; in which the pleasures within reach are reduced to bestiality and drunkenness; in which the pains accumulate at...battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave." "Any one," continues Mr. Huxley, "who is acquainted with the state of the population of all great industrial... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Capital - 1894 - 380 pages
...existence are impossible of attainment ; in which the pleasures within reach are reduced to bestiality and drunkenness ; in which the pains accumulate at...battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave. That a certain proportion of the members of every great aggregation of mankind should constantly tend... | |
 | Benjamin Kidd - Civilization - 1894 - 372 pages
...her darling the strongest."2 The condition of life which the French emphatically call la misere, that in which the prospect of even, steady, and honest...battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave, he holds to be the permanent condition of a large proportion of the masses of the people in our civilisation.... | |
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It is a condition in which the food, warmth, and clothing, which are necessary for the mere maintenance of the functions of the body in their normal state, cannot be obtained ; in which men, women, and children are forced to crowd into dens wherein decency... 
