 | Philip Slater - Political Science - 1992 - 244 pages
...with the 'purpose' evolving. — Mary Parker Follett, Creative Experience Stumbling toward Democracy A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Samuel Johnson They took it asunder I nurd thum sigh. When will they reassemble it? James Joyce,... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...Poverty is the open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. — Henry George A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Samuel Johnson If a free society cann it help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce - Law - 1996 - 112 pages
...quarter of a billion dollars poorer, and leaving poor children and seniors at risk. Samuel Johnson said "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." Let's show the millions of poor children, seniors who worked hard all their lives and spent all of... | |
 | Adele Lindenmeyr - History - 1996 - 358 pages
...late Muscovite era to the early twentieth century. The often,quoted Samuel Johnson once declared that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." Did government in Russia pass this test? The Russian autocrats, as is well known, assumed a paternalistic... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...him as "opposing the tide of history" will only distort his views7 The Johnson who proclaimed that "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization," and who struggled against capital punishment, slavery, and colonialism (which included the treatment... | |
 | Donna L. Franklin - History - 2015 - 280 pages
...dilemma, it has the greatest impact on the most vulnerable citizens. Samuel Johnson once observed that, "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." 6 By that gauge, how society provides for the most disadvantaged mothers and their children tells us... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...vol. 5. Cautioning against the "attempt to feed the people out of the hands of the magistrates." 2 A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, Life of Dr. ¡ohnson,... | |
 | Joan Waugh - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 332 pages
...cities.1 Most, if not all, Gilded Age philanthropists would have agreed with Samuel Johnson's remark that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization," yet the precise nature of "decent provision" was hotly debated, just as it is today. A particularly... | |
 | J. V. S. Murty - Watershed management - 1998 - 234 pages
...resources for watershed management. Affluent Advancement Appropriate Acceleration 8 APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY A Decent provision for the poor is the true test of Civilization — Samuel Johnson Government of India is stressing the need for accelerating economic growth rapidly... | |
 | Derek Curtis Bok - Political Science - 1998 - 502 pages
...responsibility which has not been reversed to this day. Helping the Poor Samuel Johnson once observed that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." 1 Such help has long had an honored place in American life, and even today countless people contribute... | |
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the poor in England were better provided for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republicks. Where a great proportion of the people... 
