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Title: The Claims of Labour
an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed

Author: Arthur Helps

Release Date: October 12, 2009 [eBook #30238]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1845 William Pickering edition by David Price, email
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The Claims of Labour.

AN ESSAY ON THE
DUTIES OF THE EMPLOYERS
TO THE EMPLOYED.

The Second Edition.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,
AN ESSAY ON THE MEANS OF IMPROVING THE HEALTH
AND INCREASING THE COMFORT OF THE
LABOURING CLASSES.

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LONDON
WILLIAM PICKERING
1845.

"There is formed in every thing a double nature of good; the one, as
every thing is a total or substantive in itself; the other, as it is
a part or member of a greater body; whereof the latter is in degree
the greater and the worthier, because it tendeth to the conservation
of a more general form. Therefore we see the iron in particular
sympathy moveth to the loadstone; but yet if it exceed a certain
quantity, it forsaketh the affection to the loadstone, and like a
good patriot moveth to the earth, which is the region and country of
massy bodies. This double nature of good, and the comparative
thereof, is much more engraven upon man, if he degenerate not; unto
whom the conservation of duty to the public ought to be much more
precious than the conservation of life and being: according to that
memorable speech of Pompeius Magnus, when being in commission of
purveyance for a famine at Rome, and being dissuaded with great
vehemency and instance by his friends about him, that he should not
hazard himself to sea in a