So far, so good.

Give our system whatever credit may belong to it, and still let us frankly acknowledge that we have suffering left that ought to be alleviated.

How much?
In what way?
Here we come into contact with another class of facts.

Paupers have less of sickness and death among them than any-other class in the community.

There are paupers in our establishment that have been there for twenty-five years--a fact which, if it proves anything, proves that a large proportion of the wants of our present civilization are not only artificial in their origin, but harmful in their gratifications.