ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Ledru-Rollin uses a common rhetorical strategy by acknowledging the greatness of Britain but warning that ‘it was in the apogee of her external power and wealth that Rome was struck with death’. Public charity, notwithstanding the recent observations of an illustrious fanatic, who regards it as a reform and a social amelioration, sails between two breakers which it cannot avoid. It turns out that in the game of mad competition all wages are constantly lowering, and that the English people are dying from starvation, while their masters, at their expense, hunt down, or successfully compete with, foreign or rival manufacturers, in all the markets of the universe. Public charity, notwithstanding the recent observations of an illustrious fanatic, who regards it as a reform and a social amelioration, sails between two breakers which it cannot avoid.
