Furthermore, this extreme poverty, in which the laborers are to be kept, necessarily implies that they are to receive no larger share of the proceeds of their own labor, than is necessary to keep them in a condition to labor.
He highlights that keeping laborers in extreme poverty limits their share of the fruits of their labor to just what is necessary for survival.
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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.