By striving to educate, intellectually, morally, sanitarily, the poor, we have made them half-conscious of many needs they never recognized before.

They were once naked, and not ashamed, but we have taught them better.

We have raised the standard of the requirements of a decent human life, but we have not increased to a corresponding degree their power to attain them.

If by poverty is meant the difference between felt wants and the power to satisfy them, there is more poverty than ever.

The income of the poor has grown, but their desires and needs have grown more rapidly.
Hence the growth of a conscious class hatred, the "growing animosity of the poor against the rich," which Mr.Barnett notes in the slums of Whitechapel.