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Quotation from Chartism by Thomas Carlyle
“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that Fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun”
Chartism, Chapter IV (James Fraser, London, 1840 (IA chartism00carluoft))
Carlyle tests the New Poor Law's rule that whoever will not work shall not live against the case of the man who seeks work and cannot find it.
Citation: "A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that Fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun" — Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, Chapter IV (James Fraser, London, 1840 (IA chartism00carluoft)). (id chartism-q4)
