Excerpt from The Village of Merrow: Its Past and Present But recently at the Opening (in the mother country) of a block of improved industrial dwellings it was observed by a high divine that he was quite certain that there was nothing that so inter fered with that morality, which it was the business of the Munici pality to guard over as the state of the homes of the poor, when those homes were such as to demoralize the occupants. Might not the reverend gentleman, with equal honour to himself, permit his philanthropy to indulge itself, at times, a little further. Would a word or two from the same source be all waste upon something of still greater importance at least to the agricultural poor, that their wages should cease to be such as to compel them, and how fre quently, to drag into the fields with them even their daughters and wives 1 Can morality or decency be ever hoped for in homes where such a resort is a necessity It would need for his rever ence to make but a very limited tramp in his own Devonshire to assure himself of this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.