> The only solution, Young insisted, was to deprive the rural laboring class of their property and let poverty goad them to greater industry. What else but hardship would make them work? In turned out that deprivation did the poor a favor. “Every one but an ideot [sic] knows that…the lower classes must be poor, or they will never be industrious.”
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