Written in 1704
There is in England more labor than hands to perform it, and consequently a want of people, not of employment.
No man in England, of sound limbs and senses, can be poor merely for want of work.
All our workhouses, corporations and charities for employing the poor, and setting them to work, as now they [...]
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