A dock-labourer, while a young, strong, unmarried man, could lay by half his weekly wages, and such men are almost sure of constant employment." After showing how married men might also save, Mr.Denison goes on to say, "Saving is within the reach of nearly every man, even if quite at the bottom of the tree; but if it were of anything like _common_ occurrence, the destitution and disease of this city would be kept within quite manageable limits.

And this will take place.

I may not live to see it, but it will be within two generations.

For, unfortunately, this amount of change may be effected without the least improvement in the spiritual condition of the people.

Good laws, energetically enforced, with compulsory education, supplemented by gratuitous individual exertion (which will then have a much reduced field and much fairer prospects), will certainly succeed in giving the mass of the people so much light as will generally guide them into so much industry and morality as is clearly conducive to their bodily ease and advancement in life." The difference in thriftiness between the English workpeople and the inhabitants of Guernsey is thus referred to by Mr.Denison: "The difference between poverty and pauperism is brought home to us very strongly by what I see here.