pauperism

How To Use pauperism In A Sentence

• -- The scientific remedies for poverty and pauperism, that is, the scientific methods of dealing with the various dependent classes and of preventing their existence, now form the subject-matter of a great independent science, the science of philanthropy, which, as we have already seen, may be considered a branch of applied sociology. Sociology and Modern Social Problems
• Why does the world minify our intelligence by depreciating our favorite article of diet, and express the ultimate extreme of mental pauperism by saying of him on whose intellect they would heap contempt, "He doesn't know beans"? Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
• Meanwhile, the country continued to descend deeper into fragmentation, general pauperism, and mutual predacity.
• The figures are appalling: 1,800,000 people in London live on the poverty line and below it, and 1,000,000 live with one week's wages between them and pauperism. THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF LIFE
• Now, it is a self-evident fact that "pauperism," which is a living drag on our social wheel, can _not_ be dealt with other than by rigorous local government. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
• They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and "devilry" as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Even the kind of pauperism and crime in which they indulged was particularly disgraceful. Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity
• According to government statistics, it is said ninety-eight percent of the American people are living from day to day on their wages, which means that a loss of employment would result in pauperism for all but two percent. Victorious Peace
• Intemperance, in the use of ardent spirits, is now, and it is feared will long remain, a fruitful source of pauperism and misery.
• They entirely forget, that the first promulgation of the Gospel was made at a time when the worst kind of pauperism prevailed; and that even the Master Himself, and the greater number of His Apostles belonged to the lowest stratum of society. System der volkswirthschaft. English