Carlyle on Poverty Thomas Carlyle Essay

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" He does not believe that wealth will ever be distributed fairly, for its creation precludes this possibility. Rather, he wishes for a return to past times when wealth was not the ultimate goal. In contemporary times, "all the truth of the Universe is uncertain; only the profit and loss of it...remain very visible to the practical man." He paints the past, perhaps rather disingenuously, as a place of poverty but survival, where lords kept their serfs fed at the very least.


Carlyle relies heavily on restoring religion as a motivator for restoring decent human behavior, which contrasts sharply with Robert Owen's total rejection of religion. Owen believed that socialism and increased investment in human capital was the way to solve the poverty problem by evening the field. Thomas Malthus saw poverty as a natural result of over-population, and saw limiting family size as the only reasonable measure......

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