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  • The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.221