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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 72

A Precarious Independence

A Precarious Independence,

and liable at any moment to be precipitated into the ranks of pauperism. This state of want exists, and only too often, at all periods of life. Ask the man out of work, or recovering from a long spell of sickness, and you get the same terrible story. But providing work for the unemployed, and tiding over times of sickness, and other problems, require separate treatment. What few realise is the extent to which poverty among the working classes is associated with old age. It is not that the working man and woman take a sudden plunge into drunken or vicious habits when they become old. It is not that they develop a spirit of wild extravagance or culpable laziness with increasing years. It is that the strain and stress of our modern life leaves