Note 11 — Chapter VII · THE THIRD SCHOOL1 AND THE SOCIALISTS.
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
One of the most important causes of the possible transformation of a worker into a vagrant is a long illness. Having lost the habit of work, and being enfeebled, a man will find great difficulty in going to work again. If he does not succeed he descends step by step until he comes finally to mendicity. But it is chiefly the economic transformations, inventions, overproduction, that must be called the “causa causarum” of the phenomena cited above.11