ABSTRACT
The gist of the Minority Report so far, at any rate, as the non-ablebodied are concerned may be put even more shortly. The Minority Commissioners certainly do not ignore the fact that what has to be aimed at is not this or that improvement in material circumstances or physical comfort, but an improvement in personal character. The Minority Eeport involves, in short, vastly greater numbers of voluntary workers than does the Majority Eeport, and assigns to them both a more important and a more hopeful sphere than the helping of particular individuals to “keep off the rates.” The Minority Commissioners look, under their scheme, for an enormous extension of the sphere for volunteer work of this sort, organised in connection with one or other of the Committees of the County or Country Borough Council. The deliberate and systematic adoption of the Principle of Prevention is the very basis of the Minority Eeport proposals.
