...conclusion is that if you don't have a job you deserve nothing. Emerson posed the question blundy:"Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of...to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor?"30 This gospel of the secure was preached also by Herbert Spencer, who said that poverty was...

...wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim" and "Do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation...all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor?" For Stanton every individual needs their rights, their liberties, as individuals not to avoid responsibility...

...themselves, they must be represented. — Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Bntmaire of Louis Bonaparte Then, again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of...obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they m\ poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I...

...me."7 In "Self-Reliance," Emerson balked at the Christian commandment to look to the down and out. "Do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation...all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor?" Reagan insisted that we are responsible for ourselves, and with Emerson he regarded desires not as...

..."Self- Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote of economic responsibility as focused on the self: "Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of...to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor?'"8'' American discomfort with welfare programs has been strengthened by such views. Diggins comments...