Social Reform

• "If they would rather die… they had better do it and decrease the surplus population" stave 1
• "They are Man's. This girl is Ignorance, This boy is Want. beware them both, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow i see that written which is doom, unless the writing be erased" stave 3
• "His wealth is of no good to him. He don't do any good with it" stave 3
• "The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" Stave 1
• "You … weigh everything by Gain" stave 2
• 'from the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable' stave 3
• ''i'll raise your salary and endeavor to assist your struggling family'' stave 5
• 'he became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world'