Proposals for Raising a Colledge [sic] of Industry of all Useful Trades and Husbandry.

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Wing B1830. First published the year before, this second edition has a new “Discourse for Imploying the Poor” by Chief Justice Hale, a new address “To the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament” (it had previously been addressed “To the Children of Light, in Scorn called Quakers”) and an address “To the Thinking and Publick-Spirited” along with a request to the public for subscriptions. In addition there are ten substantive alterations to the text, including raising the estimate of the cost for each college from £15000 to £18000, punishments should be “rather abatements of Food, c. then Stripes”, there should be fishing colleges on the coast, children should be bred up in temperance, work should be found for the blind and lame to avoid idle hands, etc. The second - much revised - edition of John Bellers’s extraordinary pamphlet which outlined a radical co-operative community in which no money would be needed and where the elderly would be cared for and children educated. This remarkable pamphlet outlines a striking new potential model for society which covers many social concerns present today. The work begins with an introduction in which Bellers writes: “It’s the Interest of the Rich to take Care of the Poor, and their Education, by which they will take Care of their own Heirs: For as Kingdoms and Nations are subject to Revolutions and Changes much more (and nothing commoner than) for private Families to do so; and who knows how soon it may be his own Lot, or his Posteri

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