Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social ScienceThe volume for 1886 is a report of the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886." |
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... population , of the ignorance , misery , and crime which dog the progress and mar the splendour of our national civilisation , an honest and faithful statement of past efforts and of the success which has followed them , could not fail ...
... population , of the ignorance , misery , and crime which dog the progress and mar the splendour of our national civilisation , an honest and faithful statement of past efforts and of the success which has followed them , could not fail ...
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... population . During the present century England has been attracting nearly the whole of the natural increase of its population into its large manufacturing towns , and into districts already thickly peopled . This imported population ...
... population . During the present century England has been attracting nearly the whole of the natural increase of its population into its large manufacturing towns , and into districts already thickly peopled . This imported population ...
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... population . Exposed during the frequent vicissitudes of our commerce to the trials of poverty , they have seen around them enormous accumula- tions of wealth , ostentatiously displayed and imperfectly pro- tected . While these elements ...
... population . Exposed during the frequent vicissitudes of our commerce to the trials of poverty , they have seen around them enormous accumula- tions of wealth , ostentatiously displayed and imperfectly pro- tected . While these elements ...
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... population ? While the population between 1805 and 1841 had increased in the proportion of 79 per cent . , the increase of criminals was 482 per cent . So that serious crime had increased at a sixfold greater ratio than population ...
... population ? While the population between 1805 and 1841 had increased in the proportion of 79 per cent . , the increase of criminals was 482 per cent . So that serious crime had increased at a sixfold greater ratio than population ...
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... population ; national education and general intelli- gence had advanced ; we had a more effectual police and an improved prison discipline ; a strong and promising attempt had been made to arrest the progress of pauperism ; 6 Opening ...
... population ; national education and general intelli- gence had advanced ; we had a more effectual police and an improved prison discipline ; a strong and promising attempt had been made to arrest the progress of pauperism ; 6 Opening ...
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