246 1 "The Land. The Report of the Land Enquiry Committee." Vol. II., p. 28. 250 2 Carlyle. "Chartism." Chap. VIII. "New Eras." 254 21 "The Republic of Plato." Book IV. Translated by Davies and Vaughan. CHAPTER XIII 255 26 Mr. Balfour's speech on licensing. Hansard. 1908. Vol. 185, p. 98. 256 4 Licensing Act, 1904, Sec. 4, now Licensing Act, 1910, Sec. 14. 256 16 Hansard. 1904. Vol. 133, p. 742. 258 21 Dickens. "Our Mutual Friend." Book I., Chap. VI. 265 19 "Letters and Memories of Charles Kingsley." I., 270. CHAPTER XIV 272 15 "Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, 1909." 274 24 Coke's "Institutes." III., Chap. 40, p. 103 (note). 275 16 Horn's "Mirror of Justices." Selden Society. Vol. 7, Book IV., Chap. XVI., "Of the Judgment of Homicide." 276 2 Horn's "Mirror of Justices." Book I., "Of Sins Against the Holy Peace." 279 11 "Report of Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, 1834," p. 307. 280 17 "Poor Law Report, 1909," p. 728. CHAPTER XV 285 1 2 Samuel xv. 4. 290 12 Walt Whitman. "Song of Myself." 292 14 "Report of Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Debtors Act." William Johnson's evidence, p. 164. 294 12 Manitoba Laws. CHAPTER XVI 299 2 Marcus Aurelius. "Meditations." Book IV., par. 31. 303 3 Rudyard Kipling. "The Five Nations." "Stellenbosh," p. 194. THE LAW AND THE POOR CHAPTER I PAST AND PRESENT In a word we may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal; by the comparison and application of other men's fore-passed miseries with our own like errors and ill-deservings. SIR WALTER RALEIGH: "History of the World." Oxford edition. Vol. II., Preface v. and vi.