Note 857 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
That this interpretation is not unwarranted is shown by the explanation given by one of the signatories of the Majority Report. "Charity should be properly organised to deal with these cases.... This was the position of the Majority Report.... Their motto should not be 'Help the deserving,' but 'Help the hopeful cases,' and leave State action for that section of the community which needed the bridle, the curb, and the spurs to be disciplined" (Lecture by the Rev. L. R. Phelps at Sheffield, Sheffield Independent, 15th December 1909).