CHAPTER III.
IMPROVIDENCE.
"The man who has a wife and children has given hostages to fortune."-- _Lord Bacon._ "In all conditions and circumstances, well-being is in the power of those who have power over themselves."-- _J.J.

Gurney_.
"Where is their common sense?
Alas, what imprudence! Early marriages; many children; poor-rates, and the workhouse....

They are born; they are wretched; they die....

In no foreign country of far less civilization than England, is there the same improvidence."-- _Lord Lytton_.
"No man oppresses thee, O free and independent franchiser; but does not this stupid pewter pot oppress thee?
No son of Adam can bid thee come or go, but this absurd pot of heavy-wet can and does, Thou art the thrall, not of Cedric the Saxon, but of thy own brutal appetites, and this accursed dish of liquor.

And thou pratest of thy 'liberty,' thou entire blockhead!"-- _Carlyle_.
"Never did any publike misery Rise of it selfe; God's plagues still grounded are On common staines of our Humanity: And to the flame, which ruineth Mankind, Man gives the matter, or at least gives winde."-- _Daniell_.
England is one of the richest countries in the world.