The other seven are of necessity confined to a standard of life little, if at all, above the line of bare necessaries.
Secondly, the careful figures collected by these statisticians show that the national income equally divided throughout the community would yield an average income, per family, of about L182 per annum.

A comparison of this sum with the average working-class income of L94, brings home the extent of inequality in the distribution of the national income.

While it indicates that any approximation towards equality of incomes would not bring affluence, at anyrate on the present scale of national productivity, it serves also to refute the frequent assertions that poverty is unavoidable because Great Britain is not rich enough to furnish a comfortable livelihood for everyone.
Sec.2.Gradations of Working-class Incomes .-- But though it is true that an income of 36s.

a week for an ordinary family leaves but a small margin for "superfluities," it will be evident that if every family possessed this sum, we should have little of the worst evils of poverty.

If we would understand the extent of the disease, we must seek it in the inequality of incomes among the labouring classes themselves.