The causes of poverty / by Callaghan McCarthy.

  • McCarthy, Callaghan.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The causes of poverty / by Callaghan McCarthy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before us; the movements of moisture from the former over the face of the latter; the moving atmosphere that immediately effects this distribution of moisture and overhangs the whole; the carpet of vegetable life between earth and atmosphere; the diffusion of animal life, useful and useless, over land and water; the distribution of mankind, scattered about on all sides; and, finally, the effects of motion on the light and heat continually poured over the whole. Amidst all the phenomena thus appearing before us, we must, at this stage, fix particular attention on the 1,500 million human beings, whose condition we have selected for special study; and we must, further, arrange our picture for the purpose of conveniently approaching this study and utilizing the terms of everyday life. From our imaginary view-point, the picture before us might again be surveyed in three distinct divisions. The first of these is that selected for particular observation, viz., the 1,500 million human beings that appear before us distributed over the face of the earth: the second consists of the influences of motion, as well as of the heat, light, air and moisture that overhang, as it were, both the members of mankind and the remainder of the picture about and beneath them: whilst the third embraces all belonging to that remainder, viz., animal life, vegetable life, and the surface of the earth with all else attached thereto (mines, machinery, build- ings and their contents, means of communication, clothing, food, etc.). The influences of motion to- gether with the heat, light, air and moisture at
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