...similar one prevails, is too ohvious to universal observation to need a word in proof. Dr. Johnson has said, that " a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization ;" but such institutions are not, however, confined to Christendom. Even the semi-barbarous...

...America. In short, the words of Dr. Johnson seem fully borne out by historical and geographical facts, that " A decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization." 5. He next corrects some most egregious errors, which, by the ignorance of our political...

...in many Mahometan states. Indeed, experience has long justified the.profound saying of Dr Johnson, that " a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.'' From the accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few, and the multiplication of labourers...

...rates on all visible and productive property, exempting only stock in trade ; and this has shown us that a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation, while the condition of the lower orders is the best mark of national discrimination and...

...would compel the absentees to stay at home, he would abolish all middlemen. With Dr Johnson he believed that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation," and he gives a great deal of space to a consideration of the position of the cottier....

...will not magically pull them up over the poverty threshold. Samuel Johnson enunciated the criterion that "A decent provision for the poor Is the true test of civilization." To meet Johnson's test, public policy mie t recognize that for millions of needy Americans...

...diminished because their mothers were unable to obtain needed prenatal care. Samuel Johnson wrote thai "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of a civilization." That is a test we are failing today. We cannot address the needs of the poor without addressing the...

...continuing need for close collaboration among agencies. Over two hundred years ago Samuel Johnson wrote that 'A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation'. This statement is still valid if the word 'poor' is replaced by 'handicapped'. Does...

...Association's and my own deep commitment to this issue. Samuel Johnson wisely observed two centuries ago that "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation." But the provision of legal counsel for those unable to afford it has a significance...

...Essays (Cambridge, England, 1946), p. 48-50. tutes.32 Johnson, says Boswell, told a clerical friend that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."33 Another friend, Mrs. Piozzi, in her memoir of Johnson, said that he felt severity...