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Credit: The prevention of destitution / by Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of an extensive centralised Civil Service, will be the dominant interest of the near future. Every clerk, every mechanic, every labourer, every Friendly Society or Trade Union member or official—every intelligent taxpayer even —will want to know, both as to the facts and as to the policy. This universal thirst for information and dis- cussion we must undertake to satisfy. Every speaker, every writer, even every member of the National Com- mittee, must form a clear conception, both of the social value of Insurance, voluntary and compulsory, and of the outlines of the Government scheme. We have, therefore, attempted, in a lengthy chapter on Insurance, to analyse its characteristics, to describe the disastrous results that any slovenly scheme might produce, and to set forth the conditions under which Social Insurance can become not an alternative but a useful complement, to the Policy of Prevention. And this brings us, face to face with the overwhehning importance, in any social movement, of the Moral Factor, to which we have accordingly devoted our final chapter. Sidney and Beatrice Webb. 37, Norfolk Street, Strand, London. June, 1911. [To avoid encumbering the pages with foot note references, there will be loand, immediately following each chapter, an appendix giving exact refer- ences for the facts and quotations mentioned in the text, with lists of books, etc.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21361149_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
