Don't spread about sugar to attract them into it. You wish tohave no poor in France? Distribute no alms, and above all shut downyour poorhouses. The individual born in misfortune thereupon seeinghimself deprived of these dangerous crutches, will fend forhimself, summoning up all the resources put in him by Nature, toextricate himself from the condition wherein he started life; andhe will importune you no longer. Destroy, with entire unpity, razeto the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progenyof the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom thereevery day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatureswhose unique hope resides in your purse.
What purpose, I ask, is there in preserving such individualswith so much care? Does anyone fear France's depopul
