The Roots of Reform
Patrick Dillon identifies the mid-18th century as a watershed in ideas about reforming society.
In 1754 the reformer Jonas Hanway directed his attention towards child poverty in London. He did not just lament the malnourished infants in every doorway; he developed suggestions for how to feed them and give them work. Hanway was not one to pass by on the other side, when ‘boys and girls of eight or ten years of age, to our great scandal, have perished in the streets, like starved cats or dogs’.
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