Critical observations on the buildings and improvements of London / [Anon].

  • Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Date:
1771
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Critical observations on the buildings and improvements of London / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when confidered in a political light, will be found of little force. In politicks it is not to be fo much regarded, the fucceffion of mankind, as the number at any period, which actually exift, and the manner in which * they are employed. That cities, from their confined air, epidemick difempers, accidents, 8cc. are unfavourable to longevity, is not to be doubted ; but do they not, on the other hand, encourage propagation, by the means they furniih for the providing of children, the employ¬ ment they afford to induftry, and the encouragement they continually offer to ingenuity of every kind * ? How * The effedt of hofpitals and other public rnftitutions of charity, on the * \ manners of a people, is afubjeft curious and important ; and yet it has never been fully difeuffed. That of an hofpital for foundlings, in particular, de- ferves to be examined with the molt fcrupulous exadtnefs. If it is found that fuch an inftitution begets a carelefs and improvident fpirit among the people,, and induces them, in general, to throw the charge of their offspring on the public, it is a dangerous thing. The lofs of parental care can never be made-