Incentives for Life: Personal and Public (Classic Reprint)

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For the same reason the danger from the lower grade of society may be heavily discounted. The class is permanent, the poor are always with us; but the individuals are changing. Poverty does not necessarily breed of its kind. When Toussaint l'ouverture, the Haytian patriot, was twitted upon the lower condition of his black people, he pictured a prophecy: Fill the keg with black beans on the bottom and white ones on top. Roll the keg, and count the black beans at the upper end. While the better conditioned are filtered downward by the weight of their own lethargy, the less favored individuals are climb ing up by a sort of capillary energy inspired by the necessities of life. The refuse of the so cial field is the ultimate source of its enrich ment.

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