Here in its simplest form a question every day: "We've already done this, why not would we do that? " And respect for precedent, who is involved, always pushes for new regulations. Extending branches of the industry becoming more numerous acts of parliament restricting work hours and prescribing how to deal with the workers, must now be applied to the stores. Inspection hotels filled to limit the number of tenants and impose conditions of safety, we have now passed the inspection of all homes below a certain rent lodge where members of more than one family, and we will soon move to the inspection of all homes cramped 1 . It is based on the purchase and operation of telegraphs by the State to claim the purchase and operation of railways by the state. Providing intellectual food to children by the public administration must be followed, in some cases, provision of food for their body and when in use will gradually generalized, we can expect that the free provision already proposed in a case to be used also later in the other, this extension 2 is the logical consequence of the argument that we must a solid body as well as a strong mind to make a good citizen. And then, based on precedents provided openly by church, school and reading room, all maintained at public expense, it is argued that "the pleasure, in the sense that word is generally taken TODAY 'hui, needs to be settled and organized by laws as well as work 3 . "
These encroachments of regulation must be attributed not only to precedent, but also the need to supplement the ineffective measures and to remedy the ills that arise continually artificial. The failure does not destroy the faith in the means employed, but he suggested the idea to use a more rigorous or apply them in a larger number of cases. As these laws against intemperance, dating back to ancient times and continue until our time, when new restrictions on the sale of intoxicating liquors occupy many nights during each session, have not produced the desired effect, it requires more severe in defending the sale of an absolute in certain localities, and here, as in America, probably will be asked later that the defense be made general. Many remedies for "uproot" the epidemic failed to prevent smallpox, fevers, etc.. To exercise their toll, it is seeking a new remedy consisting of the right given to the police to visit homes to see if there are people with evil, and the authority granted to physicians to examine any person to ensure it is point suffers from a contagious or infectious. Habits of foresight have been developed over generations by the Poor Law, and the number of improvident having been increased by it, it is now proposed to remedy the ills caused by the obligatory charity by making insurance mandatory.
The development of this policy, leading the development of corresponding ideas, maintains throughout this opinion to the effect that the government should intervene every time something goes wrong. "Certainly you would not want this evil continuata!" exclaims this or that, if you raise any objection against this. that is said or done now. Note that this implies exclamation. First it accepts as certain that all suffering should be prevented, which is not true, many suffering is curative, and prevention, it would prevent the effect a cure. Secondly, it recognizes certain that all ailments can be alleviated, yet the truth is that with the inherent defects of human nature, many evils can only be changed by place or form, that change often increasing their intensity. The exclamation also implies the firm belief that the state should remedy the ills of every kind. It does wonders not if there are other ways that can remedy some evils, and if the evils in question are among those to whom these means can prevent. And obviously the government often intervenes, the more thinking is rooted, and the more insistently calling her speech.
1. See letter "Local Government Board." Times, January 2, 1884.
2.La evidence comes faster than I expected. This article has been printed since Jan. 30, and in the meantime, on March 13th (this article was published on April 7), the school committee in London has resolved to request permission to use funds Charity Local to provide free meals and clothing to needy children. Now the definition of "indigent" will be expanded and will include a larger number of children and we require more funds.
3. "Fornightly Review, January 1884, p. 21.
Herbert Spencer, in the individual against the state (The Man versus the State ")
