as the "sole and sovereign remedy,"
a scheme of confiscation, the taking by title law of property,
which society, opinion, law, is bound to preserve for its own
sake- a cold - blooded, unscrupulous attempt at wholesale robbery,
which all honest men must
repudiate in sadness and in shame. It is an insult to English
- men to ask them to do an act that would put them on a level
with bandits and highway robbers. The solution of this problem
must be sought in another direction; and if I fail to prove this
to you, study the works of other writers more competent.
My opinion is that the only possibility for the diminution of
poverty is to start every one in the race resolved to improve
this condition, and to make them understand that, to achieve this
result, they must be more apt and skilful in their respective
avocations than their predecessors or rivals, but, above all,
to be actuated by a desire to develop their " better self,"
the higher part of their nature, so that, as they become wiser
and more intellectual, they will also become better men and women,
more just and true, more tolerant, more sympathetic, more
